floppy support

[Michael Ekstrand]

On 08/30/2011 06:30 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
> I see it all the time. "Some older hardware still requires floppies..."
> It just seems like a generic defense statement for the fans of floppies
> and for those who insist on using them for god knows what reason.
> Any hardware that is true to that statement must be at least 15 years
> old surely!
> And for the cheap price of PCs these days, whether it is building your
> own or grabbing an oem system, just upgrade to something that does have
> full usb support.

I am not defending floppies - I think the current approach of "ship the
module, but don't load it by default" is quite sensible - but there is
an additional use case: perhaps the machine itself does not need
floppies, but being able use it to prepare floppies for another machine
that does (e.g. some old piece of electronics that can save data to
floppy, a dedicated-use computer for running scientific experiments, etc.).

- Michael