He makes use of the fact that floppy disk edge card connectors ... in a hacked USB card reader, some careful cutting and assembly, and [gilmour509] has a very convincing floppy drive with ...

Initially, the only connectors supported were USB Type ... optical drives, and floppy disk drives. USB 1.0 didn't see much success, but the next revision, 1998's USB 1.1, broke through.

"The utility of a floppy disk is just no longer there for most users," Bajarin said. Dell brand 16-megabyte USB flash memory drives will be offered standard in Dimension's high-end model first and ...