On 3/9/23 22:14, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Many folks have turned to emulators, abandoning the spinning rust
altogether.
Yup, my year-2000 pick and place machine had a 3.5" floppy
drive, but I had no confidence that any old disks would be
workable, and I had no other machines with drives for that.
So, I got one of those floppy emulators that takes a USB
thumb drive and emulates a bunch of 1.44 MB floppies. It
worked great until I figured out how to get the network
running on that machine. (It runs Win 95 and needs it
because user programs access hardware directly.
Jon
