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Offline Clive

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Turning a USB stick into a 3.5" diskette
« on: November 15, 2010, 14:54 »
The pictures say it all, really. Hardware hacker Charles Mangin this weekend posted the results of his attempt to slot the innards from a USB Flash drive into an old 3.5in floppy disk case - well, two of them, to be precise, the original casing not being quite thick enough for the cable and connector.


http://www.reghardware.com/2010/11/15/diskette_usb_drive_hack/
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Re: Turning a USB stick into a 3.5" diskette
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2010, 16:26 »
And this gained what, exactly?  :dunno:
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Re: Turning a USB stick into a 3.5" diskette
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2010, 20:53 »
 :hee-hee:
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Re: Turning a USB stick into a 3.5" diskette
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2010, 21:15 »
Too much time on his hands.  :)
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Re: Turning a USB stick into a 3.5" diskette
« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2010, 00:15 »
looks like it would be rather awkward to plug in
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Re: Turning a USB stick into a 3.5" diskette
« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2010, 09:43 »
;D
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Re: Turning a USB stick into a 3.5" diskette
« Reply #6 on: November 16, 2010, 10:31 »
I bet he has a fantastic social life  ;D
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Re: Turning a USB stick into a 3.5" diskette
« Reply #7 on: November 16, 2010, 11:23 »
Well, he certainly seem to live in fantasy land.
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