LS-120 users unite! Loved that particular piece of tech, still have the drive and a few sealed floppies for it in my "data recovery storage bucket", forgot about that incredibly interesting detail w.r.t. it taking an IDE-chain position rather than riding the floppy-bus.
I went through my "sentimental" 3.5" floppy spelunking era, basically a bunch of `rsync /mnt/floppy ./floppies/xyz-whatever` and pushed that to my remote server backups... ahh, the joys of finding my old CS1301 homework with "SSN: xxx-xx-xxxx" in the README.txt (or header comment)... good times!
I've already bought a USB-Floppy (and other USB-based "old media" bits), but I'll definitely be keeping the LS-120 now as I think IDE is more durable (and IIRC LS-120 drives were more "precise" w.r.t. track recovery/locating since they supported the higher data densities). Doing some searches show there's also "IDE-to-USB-C Adapter Kits(!!!)" which will definitely be going into the bucket too!
I don't have an LS-120 anymore, but I did have one at the very tail end of the floppy era. I never fed it one of the fancy disks. :-/
It worked, though, and it was really fast with regular floppies. Part of me says that I should have held onto it, but the rest of me is kind of glad that I haven't been moving it from place to place for the past ~20 years.
LPT: You can plug your USB floppy drive into your modern pocket supercomputer. In what may be the funniest bit of anachronistic computing you've seen in a long time, it will show up as removable storage without any effort and you can read and write files with it. :)
... the joys of USB-A to C adapters! It's on my list to try that with a CD drive, but I'll add floppy to it as well (especially since I'm looking in to data recovery stuff was well... wonder if ye-olde appendable/eraseable WORM/CD-RW drives are still kicking around out there??!?
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LS-120 users unite! Loved that particular piece of tech, still have the drive and a few sealed floppies for it in my "data recovery storage bucket", forgot about that incredibly interesting detail w.r.t. it taking an IDE-chain position rather than riding the floppy-bus.
I went through my "sentimental" 3.5" floppy spelunking era, basically a bunch of `rsync /mnt/floppy ./floppies/xyz-whatever` and pushed that to my remote server backups... ahh, the joys of finding my old CS1301 homework with "SSN: xxx-xx-xxxx" in the README.txt (or header comment)... good times!
I've already bought a USB-Floppy (and other USB-based "old media" bits), but I'll definitely be keeping the LS-120 now as I think IDE is more durable (and IIRC LS-120 drives were more "precise" w.r.t. track recovery/locating since they supported the higher data densities). Doing some searches show there's also "IDE-to-USB-C Adapter Kits(!!!)" which will definitely be going into the bucket too!
I don't have an LS-120 anymore, but I did have one at the very tail end of the floppy era. I never fed it one of the fancy disks. :-/
It worked, though, and it was really fast with regular floppies. Part of me says that I should have held onto it, but the rest of me is kind of glad that I haven't been moving it from place to place for the past ~20 years.
LPT: You can plug your USB floppy drive into your modern pocket supercomputer. In what may be the funniest bit of anachronistic computing you've seen in a long time, it will show up as removable storage without any effort and you can read and write files with it. :)
... the joys of USB-A to C adapters! It's on my list to try that with a CD drive, but I'll add floppy to it as well (especially since I'm looking in to data recovery stuff was well... wonder if ye-olde appendable/eraseable WORM/CD-RW drives are still kicking around out there??!?