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2 HN users recommended this between 2022 and 2025, in 2 comments.
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I'm surprised nobody ever manufactured the floppy-disc equivalent of those audio-to-casette-player adapters. Making one would be a fun project...
But the real, practical answer is that there are floppy drive emulators that speak (whatever protocol floppy drives speak) to the host, but which let you plug a USB Mass Storage device into the front:
https://www.amazon.com/Gotek-SFR1M44-U100-1-44MB-Floppy-Emul...
Just rip out the machine's floppy drive and put one of those in its place. Button on the front pages through virtual "floppies" stored as files on your USB stick. It's sort of like using a game-console flash cart.
https://www.amazon.com/Gotek-SFR1M44-U100-1-44MB-Floppy-Emul...