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Or replace the floppy drive with a floppy drive emulator which uses an SD card as a storage medium. They're popular in the retrocomputing community. No other hardware or software changes required, and you replace a whole bunch of moving parts that are bound to fail with something simple and solid-state. Same deal for hard drives in old PCs: image them, and then pop in a faster and moving-parts-free drive emulator.


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