Subj : Re: Today in History - 19
To   : Richard Falken
From : Ryan Fantus
Date : Thu Aug 31 2023 06:13 pm

 RF> As of late, some companies have started investing in floppy emulators.
 RF> THat's right: you have a fake floppy you instert in the floppy reader,
 RF> and then you attatch an USB drive or something to the fake floppy. That
 RF> way you get to use your old machinery without having to buy more
 RF> floppies.

I use floppy emulators on a lot of my retro kit. Recently I've even started 
using optical drive emulators and removing old broken CD-ROMs. This is mainly 
for game consoles but I'm sure we'll see something similar for PCs and the like 
before long.

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