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Re:The floppy disk orphaned by Linux by velosol on Friday July 26, 2019 @02:52PM (#20537356)
> In a saner world, the 240 MB LS-240 would have been the last floppy.

Years ago I longed for an LS-120 but by the time I had the money a CD writer was the better deal. I occasionally look at eBay for LS-120s just for fun but I now have a new unicorn to search for and one that didn't even come out in the US - the LS-240. Thank you for a new bit of nostalgia!

Re:The floppy disk orphaned by Linux by hakfoo on Saturday July 27, 2019 @02:41AM (#20540722)
I liked LS-120s because they were IDE and the last generation or two of PC mainboards with a real floppy controller, the controller, or the BIOS, only supported one drive.

So with the LS-120, you could have a Phenom II with the same 3.5/5.25 dual-floppy capability as your old 386SX.

Bought like four of them in external cases from my university's sale-of-scrap-goods dealer. They're just IDE units with a little adapter board to either USB or some weird propriatery connector.