A Drop-In Replacement for Your Obsolete Floppy Disk Drive

Remember the good ol’ floppy drive? Well, Solid State Disks has come up with a way to make them great again. Introducing the FLOPPYFlash, a drop-in emulator for that obsolete, electro-mechanical drive in your computer.

The easy-to-install drive is designed to fit in your computer’s pre-existing port, and can replace 3.5-inch, or 5.25-inch and 8-inch floppy disk drives using a suitable adaptor. It only needs a standard 34-pin floppy disk drive connection to work (and supports 26-pin / 34-pin slim and Shugart floppy connections).

FLOPPYFlash uses removable standard industrial CompactFlash cards, and its firmware can be upgraded via USB.

It only requires a 5V power supply and data transfer rates can be adjusted between 125 and 500 Kb/s depending on whether the matching encoding method is FM, MFM or MMFM. The emulated track configuration is programmable, too.

TCP/IP networking via standard RJ45 Ethernet connection is also supported, allowing FLOPPYFlash to be connected to any existing local area network for remote configuration, control, diagnostics, backup and restore.

Intrigued? Head over to its page to learn more!

[h/t Digital Trends]