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I would be surprised if you needed anything that old. I was doing some research on my 2012 vintage PC mainboard a couple of years ago, and seem to recall a refe
by II2II 2y ago
I would be surprised if you needed anything that old. I was doing some research on my 2012 vintage PC mainboard a couple of years ago, and seem to recall a reference to the chipset one generation prior supporting floppy drives. Of course, whether many mainboards actually included the header is an open question. I also have a Pentium 4 laptop hanging around that has a swappable drive bay that could use a floppy drive. Of course, finding the appropriate laptop floppy drive will be difficult.
PCs were slow to drop support for legacy hardware.
- walrus01 2y agoYes you probably wouldn't need to go that old. As I recall Pentium 4 motherboards of the generation around p4 "northwood" and "prescott" still had floppy drive headers commonly built into them. Probably there's some motherboards that have FDD headers and are also new enough to run an AMD64/x86-64 understanding CPU to run a current linux kernel without having to hunt down i386-everything for the operating system install.
- BenjiWiebe 2y agoI think my AMD Sempron 3100+ PC has an FDD header, and it can run x86_64.