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|  Message 1290  |
|  Ryan Fantus to Richard Falken  |
|  Re: Today in History - 19  |
|  31 Aug 23 18:13:58  |
 TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A49 MSGID: 1:218/820 8a0d944e REPLY: 745.fido_classicc@1:135/115 2954dfa4 TZUTC: -0700 RF> As of late, some companies have started investing in floppy emulators. RF> THat's right: you have a fake floppy you instert in the floppy reader, RF> and then you attatch an USB drive or something to the fake floppy. That RF> way you get to use your old machinery without having to buy more RF> floppies. I use floppy emulators on a lot of my retro kit. Recently I've even started using optical drive emulators and removing old broken CD-ROMs. This is mainly for game consoles but I'm sure we'll see something similar for PCs and the like before long. --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/02/26 (Linux/64) * Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M (1:218/820) SEEN-BY: 1/123 10/0 1 15/0 18/200 90/1 102/401 103/1 705 105/81 106/201 SEEN-BY: 123/131 129/305 153/7715 154/10 214/22 218/0 1 215 700 810 SEEN-BY: 218/820 840 850 860 870 880 900 920 930 226/30 227/114 229/110 SEEN-BY: 229/112 113 206 275 307 317 400 426 428 452 470 664 700 266/512 SEEN-BY: 282/1038 291/111 292/854 301/1 305/3 317/3 320/219 322/757 SEEN-BY: 342/200 396/45 460/58 633/280 712/848 5075/35 PATH: 218/820 700 229/426 |
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