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You can get floppy drive emulator gizmos that slot in and connects to the ?Floppy Disk Connector?, then you have a flash drive it reads/writes to. https://en.m

You can get floppy drive emulator gizmos that slot in and connects to the ?Floppy Disk Connector?, then you have a flash drive it reads/writes to. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk_hardware_emulator https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk_hardware_emulato... Still just as slow, but no read/write failures. Not sure if there’s an actual disk doohickey that plugs into any drive, but probably.

danudey 2y ago
It's probably a case where their warranty/support contract doesn't support MUNI replacing the existing hardware, and they don't want to certify new hardware for a 26 year old system. I do wonder if they just have a stack of hermetically-sealed floppy disks that they have to swap to when one of them dies, or if they're just raw-dogging their redundancy.
- numpad0 2y ago
  There was an HSR outage in Japan caused by an SSD upgrade - the software did not expect disk to lag at all, but the new SSD did. That was done by Hitachi subsidiary too, so a cheap flash upgrades would sure look extra pound-foolish situation to them. 1: https://hardware.srad.jp/story/13/07/24/0552212/ https://hardware.srad.jp/story/13/07/24/0552212/