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People might remember the faux-cassette tapes with an analogue audio input, that you could use to play music from other sources on a tape-only car stereo.Does s
by rm445 2y ago
People might remember the faux-cassette tapes with an analogue audio input, that you could use to play music from other sources on a tape-only car stereo.Does something similar exist for legacy floppy drives? Like a fake floppy with a micro SD card slotted in.
Packing it into an actual diskette might be challenging - I guess you'd need to read an encoder on the rotation. Perhaps if you had some legacy musical or scientific instrument with a tape drive you'd be better swapping out the whole drive with something that presented as a floppy drive to the device?
- amelius 2y ago> Packing it into an actual diskette might be challenging - I guess you'd need to read an encoder on the rotation. Wasn't the rotational speed more or less fixed?
- crtasm 2y agoI see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashPath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlashPath but it required a device driver.
- proamdev123 2y ago> the faux-cassette tapes with an analogue audio input It was called a “cassette adapter” (for anyone interested in looking it up).
- jayofdoom 2y agoA device like this exists for Apple II floppy emulation. I've not seen one for PCs, and modeling it as a floppy would have significant downsides to the alternative, just modeling it as a removable (hard) drive