I wish I kept that computer but its been gone for about 20 years now.
#Usb flash drive floppy disk emulator windows
When i installed Windows 95 to the Everex Step 386 running 8MB RAM it was a very noisy boot of hard drive activity and the yellow matrix display on front panel was flashing fast all the read sector locations etc. The yellow display on front panel was kind of cool but not sure what other purpose it actually served other than I guess if you wanted data placed on a quicker location on a drive platter, I suppose you might be able to verify its sector/track location and shave off some ms. Just found my old computer on google images. The LED display on it reminds me of an older 386 Everex computer I had many years ago that had a display that would show what drive was being accessed and what sectors were in use on drives.
#Usb flash drive floppy disk emulator drivers
Curious if this device would truly bridge USB Flash Drive technology with an older system that only supports Floppy or Hard Drive booting, a system too old to support USB Boot like an older Windows 95 computer that had a single USB 1.0 or 1.1 port that only worked as a USB port after the OS loaded drivers for it but otherwise the BIOS did not support booting through USB like modern and somewhat modern computers manufactured for the last 10 or so years. Its been ages since I needed to use a floppy disk and last time I was able to scrounge up a dusty but still working floppy drive to use an old 1.44MB disk and flash a BIOS for a Pentium 4 computer.
Might pick one of these up out of sheer curiosity. 52 Floppy Drive Emulator USB For Korg N364 X3R Includes 2150+ Sound Replacement.
Was window shopping online looking to see if there were any bargains and this snagged my attention. 5 Floppy Disk Replacement Drive Black Face W/ 24 PIN connector (74. Interesting find - Floppy Drive emulator allowing USB Flash to act as Floppy.
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