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Finally finished putting together a Monster FDC, by Sergey Kiselev. It's an ISA card with DUAL FLOPPY CONTROLLERS allowing one computer to support up to EIGHT FLOPPY DRIVES! github.com/skiselev/monst

9:20 PM · Feb 7, 2022

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but what's the total capacity?

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23.04mb, I think? assuming you used 2.88mb ED drives.

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Who uses floppy drives in 2022?

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That'd be me.

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i thought you said Korolev and was mightily impressed that the father of modern rocketry also dabbled in floppy disks

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@TheMajorTechie

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HOLY CRAP

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I:\DOS>

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this is purely so you can rick roll us via floppy noise isnt it foone

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Let's see... 5.25" 360k, 5.25" 1.2MB (only really reads 360K disks, not writes properly), 3.5" 2.88, 8"...

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So you can have 2 of each size disk and 2 spairs? 8", 5 1/4, HD. I mean it's cool but excessive?