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Posted by Brendan Gillatt on February 18, 2008, 2:09 pm
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Trail Rat wrote:
> Sorting through some old boxes of stuff that has been screaming out to
> be sorted. I find a couple dozen floppy drives and literally hundreds
> of floppy disks (which I'm currently processing).
>
> Was curious to know if they still had a place in this day 'n' age of
> micro storage cards and dvd+rws.
>
> Would love to know if I could do anything with them apart from
> stripping the drives for their motors.
>
> TR
I can only think of one use for a floppy drive now: as a boot medium;
even that's getting less common with USB booting.
It would be an interesting project to see if you could read/write to them
using a micro - the data rate is fabulously slow making it easy to get
the timing right.
By the way, if yours are anything like the last one I took apart you
don't get nice stepper motors out of them - you get a horrid, flat
pancake style motor with the coils etched onto a circuit board and a
circular magnet above it.
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>Sorting through some old boxes of stuff that has been screaming out to
>be sorted. I find a couple dozen floppy drives and literally hundreds
>of floppy disks (which I'm currently processing).
>
>Was curious to know if they still had a place in this day 'n' age of
>micro storage cards and dvd+rws.
>
>Would love to know if I could do anything with them apart from
>stripping the drives for their motors.