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Imation USB 1.1 Floppy drive $17 @OD on Clearence

KABOOM! for those of us who opted to go without floppy this go-around BUT need one at LAN parties for the dork who cries out "HEY, ANYONE GOT LANSUCKER I CAN GET?"...

Thanks for posting!
 
Hey, 600m was a great choice.. I have one as well.. Just to toss it out there, I got a tri media reader.. It's made by VST or whoever.. But it does Floppy, CF, and Smartmedia.. I grabbed it up on ebay.. The cheapest on there now is like $25.. But I got mine for like 15... Works great! And somehow it reads floppies at 2x.. It's a lot faster than my internal drive on my home pc...
 
What is a floppy drive?




O, you mean that square thing that can only store 1.44mb? And it have this window to prevent U from touching the inside? And you have to have like 10 or 20 of it to save anything? 🙂
 
Originally posted by: SmoothSL
Hey, 600m was a great choice.. I have one as well.. Just to toss it out there, I got a tri media reader.. It's made by VST or whoever.. But it does Floppy, CF, and Smartmedia.. I grabbed it up on ebay.. The cheapest on there now is like $25.. But I got mine for like 15... Works great! And somehow it reads floppies at 2x.. It's a lot faster than my internal drive on my home pc...
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Thanks for the suggestion. The CF reader will come in handy.
 
Hey there.. Just to let you know.. If you do get the VST Tri Media Drive. Make sure you get the drivers from HERE

The ones they usually forward you to on ebay or whatever is on smartdisk's website.. They don't have drivers for XP, and the ones they had for 2k would make my system bsod on shutdown if the drive was hooked up.. Since I got the new drivers.. Everything has been gravy!!


Take care!
 
"And you have to have like 10 or 20 of it to save anything?"
some drivers fit on them fine.
i went over to a friend's house during the recent blackout... no internet connection to dload the drivers -- ergo no pictures, but i JUST happened to have a floppy with the usb driver for my cybershot...
pictures didnt look good though (user error 😱)
oh well
 
damn, nice, I need one of these since i'm always too lazy to hook up a real floppy for flashing BIOS 😀


/edit: whats the part number, can't find it on the site
 
Originally posted by: TTM77
What is a floppy drive?




O, you mean that square thing that can only store 1.44mb? And it have this window to prevent U from touching the inside? And you have to have like 10 or 20 of it to save anything? 🙂
Click to expand...

😉

Yep, use the floppy drive and a neat little program called Chainsaw to break up the files to fit on the floppy disk. That way when you have to transfer a 2MB file using the sneaker net, you don't need to burn it to a 700MB CDR.
 
Tru oldschool thugz use Zipspan -&!!!

I once got Mortal combat for pc on 13 zip spanned disks !!!! sophmore year high school chemistry!!
 
oh, gotta luv usb floppy drives. still remember how some guy raided 4 of them. very nice.

//krunk (^_^x)
 
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