ways to feel old: see a youtube video titled "what happened to the A: and B: drives in windows"
realizing that so many people have never used floppy disks to the point that they don't even know that A: and B: are reserved for floppy drives...
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It... is becoming a relic... yeah...
@JulieSqveakaroo we actually used floppy disks just a few weeks ago
though that was because we were working with equipment that was built in the 80s and could only save data to floppy disks since it predates usb by a few years and predates usb mass storage by over a decade
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@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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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...
@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 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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