Ideas on using old floppy disks


  1. ICIT2LOL
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    Ideas on using old floppy disks


    My partner Lynne has just found a load of old floppy drives that have stuff on she would like to recover - pics and docs etc.

    Now I I have looked around for some sort of adaptor that will hook up the drive to a USB port but am having no luck.
    I can hook up the power and data cables ok but to get it converted to a USB input is proving extremely hard.

    Any ideas please??
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  3. D3LL
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    Hmmm, is this what you are looking for?
    1 44MB External Floppy Diskette 3 5'' USB 2 0 Portable Drive Disk FOR Laptop | eBay
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  4. ICIT2LOL
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    Yes thanks mate and have just got one.

    I had visions of wires everywhere etc etc
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  6. D3LL
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    ICIT2LOL said:
    Yes thanks mate and have just got one.

    I had visions of wires everywhere etc etc
    Hahaha! Look like spaghetti! Glad to hear it's resolved.
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