On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 at 01:48, Charles Dickman via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Were there ever any floppy controllers for the (parallel) PCI bus?
Floppy *controllers*, no. Floppy *drives*, yes. The Backpack range were the most well-known, I'd say. e.g. 5¼": https://www.amazon.com/MICRO-SOLUTION-1-44MB-Backpack-Parallel/dp/B0000512MS 3½": https://www.ebay.com/itm/384823809302 The company did a range of parallel-port storage drives: CDs, tape drives and so on. Most were slow but worked, but the floppy drives were quite a good option at the time for things like laptops which couldn't accept another drive or controller, or for adding drives unsupported by the built-in controller. I used them for emergency backups, data transfer, data recovery and so on. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: [email protected] ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: [email protected] Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053
