Thumb drive for VF3

Wild West · Aug 19, 2017

I am looking to replace the 3.5" floppy drive on my old VF3 with a thumb drive. Where do I find them?

Milland · Aug 19, 2017

Just one example: Amazon.com: Generic SFR1M44-U USB Floppy Drive Emulator for Industrial Control Equipment: Computers & Accessories

You need the utility to mod a thumb drive to the 1.44Mb equivalent of a floppy, unless there's a better workaround now. Use a good quality TD in as low a Gb as you can find, I just got some SanDisk Cruzer 16Gb USB 2.0 drives for this purpose from Amazon at ~$7 ea. for this purpose.

[Amazon.com: SanDisk Cruzer 16GB USB 2. Flash Drive (SDCZ36-16G-B35): Electronics now they're listed as $10]

Utility: http://www.ipcas.com/support/usb-floppy-emulation-download.html

Use at your own risk, etc., etc.

Stirling · Aug 21, 2017

hfo quoted me $550ish CDN when I inquired.
May be taking them up on it shortly.
Said it should take me no longer than 30 min to install myself

Turbo442 · Aug 22, 2017

Look on EBay. You should be able to find something much cheaper than that.

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AARONT · Aug 22, 2017

hanermo · Aug 22, 2017

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Highly.