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Fail of the Week: Electrically Effective Emulators Exceed Enclosure, Enrage Engineer

27After a few years of on and off development, [Steve] from Big Mess ‘o Wires completed work on a floppy disk drive emulator for older Macs such as the Plus. The emu plugs into the DB-19 port on the Mac and acts just like a 3.5″ floppy, using an SD card to store the images. He’s been selling the floppy emus for about the last year, and assembled the first several scores of them himself. At some point, he enlisted a board house to make them, and as of November 2014, he’s had enclosures available in both clear acrylic and …read more #DB19, #FailOfTheWeek, #Floppy, #FloppyDrive, #FloppyEmulator, #HackadayColumns, #MacPlus