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   Ryan Fantus to Richard Falken   
   Re: Today in History - 19   
   31 Aug 23 18:13:58   
   
   TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A49   
   MSGID: 1:218/820 8a0d944e   
   REPLY: 745.fido_classicc@1:135/115 2954dfa4   
   TZUTC: -0700   
    RF> As of late, some companies have started investing in floppy emulators.   
    RF> THat's right: you have a fake floppy you instert in the floppy reader,   
    RF> and then you attatch an USB drive or something to the fake floppy. That   
    RF> way you get to use your old machinery without having to buy more   
    RF> floppies.   
      
   I use floppy emulators on a lot of my retro kit. Recently I've even started   
   using optical drive emulators and removing old broken CD-ROMs. This is mainly   
   for game consoles but I'm sure we'll see something similar for PCs and the   
   like before long.   
      
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