It might be possible to buy an old floppy drive off ebay and switch out the broken one of that happens, as long as there are no proprietary connectors and such…
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viking@infosec.pub 7 months agoMy friend’s dad has a CNC machine that requires floppy disks to load the design patterns. He’s worried that a mechanical failure of the disk drive will eventually be the end of it, rather than the machine itself being obsolete. It’s been going strong for almost 40 years now.
pyt0xic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Compaq would like a word.
bufordt@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Ah yes, Compaq, the company that used non standard power supplies but with the standard wire coloring and connectors. I had several customers blow up their motherboards after buying standard replacement power supplies.
grayman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
GoTEK SFR1M44-U100 3.5 Inch 1.44MB USB SSD Floppy Drive Emulator Black a.co/d/hJwq736
ICastFist@programming.dev 7 months ago
Almost 40 years, so it’s been running since the 80s? Damn, older than Windows.
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 7 months ago
Look for usb floppy emulators, you can have the floppy images in a usb flash drive. No moving parts or need to find expensive floppies.
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If this thing relies on floppy, I don’t imagine it would be USB compatible
renormalizer@feddit.de 7 months ago
It’s reverse: you get a board that has a floppy interface on one side and a USB socket on the other. You plug in a USB drive and the board uses a file on the drive as the floppy disk. It’s a little less convenient because you have to deal with disk images but it works without moving parts.
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I see, like those car radio cassette to aux cable modules