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kleinbl00  ·  2760 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The most wonderful thing on the interwebs today: Raiders of the Lost Walmart

This is the winner.

If you find yourself in the unenviable position of having to read memory sticks via your floppy drive, $78 is a goddamn bargain.

I had a device at a job backintheday that had a DD floppy drive. It was connected to the device (which spoke CP/M) via a proprietary 30-pin cable. The device was solid state. The drive was not. And while it was probably a Toshiba from 1986 that was available from certain eBay vendors in questionable condition, seeing as it was 2005, my boss grudgingly paid $1800 for a replacement floppy. After all, we billed that piece of shit out at $220 an hour.