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On 01/06/2013 01:24 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

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> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 11:28 AM, david wrote:

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>> I think his concern with USB floppy drives was that it might not be possible

>> to write non-standard floppy formats over USB, since some of the

>> non-standard formats require changing settings in the floppy drive

>> controller itself.

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> Hmmm, that's clearly beyond my expertise :)

Mine, too. I remember alternative disk-at-once ways of writing 1.8 or

2MB to a 1.44MB floppy ... we thought that was a height of geekness,

squeezing in those extra kilobytes ... guess I'm old or something.
>> I don't know how much they cost now.

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> There are  units, there are 0 units. Depends on the brand.

Probably the same basic hardware beneath them all. I think the Sony

external drive we have added about $100 to the total price of her old

system. ;-)
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