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February 26, 2016 05:45 pm GMT

How to take your floppy disc from 1.4 MB to 128 GB

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The year is 2016, and you still have a floppy disc-compatible A drive in your computer. You wouldn’t want to just let that go to waste, would you? But how do you put a 3.5-inch floppy to use when they only hold 1.4 MB of data?

You throw an SD card in it, which conveniently fits right into the floppy’s metal shutter. After a slight adjustment to the connector pins in the computer and a rewiring, you have yourself a floppy disc with 128 GB of storageImgur user gilmour509 figured out this cool hack while gutting and upgrading a 1995 IBM Aptiva desktop.

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