It... is becoming a relic... yeah...
@JulieSqveakaroo it was actually a little surprising to find that windows 10 will still accept usb floppy drives with no trouble whatsoever, it even has specific floppy drive icons
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@JulieSqveakaroo I bet with the proper drivers and a controller card it would work but yeah not with stuff out of the box
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Adapters would be necessary, yeah.
@JulieSqveakaroo There might be PCIe floppy controllers!
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@JulieSqveakaroo More likely you'd need a PCIe to PCI bridge though and plug in a PCI floppy controller
I'm quite sure you don't have to go all the way back to ISA
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I have a few 3.5 floppies around, and I think I've still got a zipdisk or two... but not the hardware needed to read either of them, because there's just no actual need.
@Felthry
That does make sense for legacy purposes, but I would have doubts that modern computer stacks would be able to accept the original cables and pin slots that we needed to use, back then... definitely laptops wouldn't...