Hi, 1. Yes there are USB floppy external drives, and there are USB to SATA / IDE / SCSI connectors 2. The following links aren't a recommendation, just the first things I found based on what I know from Amazon / Local vendors in the US
Floppy USB external drive https://ksp.co.il/web/item/8572 For the HDD if it is SATA (doubt it) there are docking stations For IDE connections there are USB connectors but couldn't find it quickly Yehuda ------------------------------ *Yehuda Deutsch | IT Developer* On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 2:27 PM Omer Zak <w...@zak.co.il> wrote: > I have a friend who has a PC, which got stuck in the late 1990's. This > Ethernet-less and Internet-less PC has old (circa 1997) RedHat Linux > installed on it and it uses floppy disks (diskettes) for backups. > > Now the floppy disk drive seems to have gone out of order and my friend > will need to read his diskettes in a modern PC as well as transfer to > it the contents of his hard disk (presumably connected via IDE or > whatever was available in the antediluvian period before the Big Dotcom > Crash of 2000. > > 1. Are there any floppy disk drives with USB connection for reading > those diskettes? > 2. If one needs to temporarily connect an old hard disk (not having a > modern SATA interface) to a modern PC, what solutions are there? > > Thanks! > > --- Omer Zak > > > -- > "Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by > looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it > possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man." - Walter E. > Williams > My own blog is at https://tddpirate.zak.co.il/ > > My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. > They do not represent the official policy of any organization with > which I may be affiliated in any way. > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at https://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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