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		daimyoyo on July 12, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Floppy Disks: It’s Too Late This presents a unique opportunity. So current storage tech lasts about 10 years or so, give or take. I think there will be a massive migration of data and if you can prove your media lasts say 50 years, people will be quite excited to embrace your standard. As an aside, I have a massive Commodore 5 1/4" disk drive reader at my parents house. Found it in a goodwill. Thing weighs like 15lbs. Anyone know of drivers I can download to make it work on a modern PC?

KateLawson on July 14, 2011 | [–]

ZoomFloppy: USB -> Commodore 1541/1571/1581 drive adapter

http://store.go4retro.com/products/ZoomFloppy.html

I designed it. Board and all software is open-source.

ig1 on July 12, 2011 | [–]

Scroll down to the software section on:

http://sta.c64.org/xcables.html

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