And of course, the most important port – the USB port. It also features a Green LED for power and a Red LED for access, and two push buttons – one to increment the floppy being accessed, another to decrement. It features a two-digit 7-segment display on the front panel which displays 00 to 99 for a total of 100 floppies. In fact, the picture on the eBay posting couldn’t be more honest – as it includes the masking tape over the display which I subsequently removed. The floppy emulator in question is this one from eBay. But I guess there isn’t a better time to give it a go. I just never got around to it! I never completely worked out how it “worked” either. In fact, I had purchased one a while back, and I tested it, and I intended to blog about it. After covering a bucket-load of information about saving floppy disks using the Kryoflux, my friend George asked me whether I had used, or come across, a floppy disk emulator which uses a USB stick as the storage media and whether it could be useful to move files from a PC without modern connectivity.
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