[jmclnx]

This got me playing with an old 3.5" USB Diskette Drive I got from work on NetBSD. It works great. All I need is one of those for 5.25 diskettes :)

A long time ago I had to get a file off of a 3.5" diskette that was corrupted. Linux would panic but NetBSD just came out with the rump kernel. So I installed NetBSD and used rump. Rump crashed a few times but the system stayed up. So after a few tries I got about 80 - 90% of the document.

I miss the convenience and cheapness of diskettes.

[ssl-3]

Vaguely-related: With an OTG adapter (eg USB C to A), a person can plug a USB floppy drive into their pocket supercomputer.

A single disk won't even hold a single photo from the device's many-megapixel camera, but it works fine -- Android, Apple, whatever.

It is approximately the funniest fucking thing ever to have a floppy drive whir to life while connected only to a smartphone, and I strongly suggest to anyone with the means to make the time to experience it.