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New England Free for the cost of shipping Imation Super Drive 120mb 3.5" floppy drive USB external

Covers: Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Maine.
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Dont know if this thing works as I never had any superdrive disks. Its been on my drive shelf for quite a while and time to be evicted.

This is free just pay the cost of shipping. Please take it so I dont throw it away. SPRING CLEANING DEMANDS IT!
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If this is like every other external LS-120 I've ever seen, you can shuck it and have an IDE drive which can be mounted internally and used as either straight PATA or with a SATA-IDE adaptor. Windows 10 even still assigns it drive A. The bezels are hen's teeth though.

I don't need it (got like 5 spares since I hoard them locally) but that might increase the catchment appeal.
 
LS-120 drives will read/write standard floppies around 3x speed of a normal drive. I also find them to be slightly better at reading weak sectors. So the drives are useful even without superdisks.
 
The connector on the back of the drive box is an odd Centronics-like job that the dongle plugs into. At this point, I think that the dongles are worth more than the drives, as they seem to be a general-purpose IDE-USB bus replicator.
 
Its usb A not sure which one you mean. No drama, no weird connector.

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Anyway its packed up and on its way to its new owners.
 
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Ah, this one's different then. Maybe an earlier/later one than the M2?
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Ah, this one's different then. Maybe an earlier/later one than the M2?
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I think you are right about it being earlier. I did a look on google images and ALL I can find are these new translucent ones with the centronics connector. I honestly know ZERO about these things and it sounds like you are pretty knowledgeable on them.
This one I sold must have the usb ide adapter built inside of it making it more convenient. I dunno, I never got into them as I had plenty of zip drives at the time.
 
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When these were cheaper, I would repurpose the cases for external 3.5" floppy use. About a third of the time, the LS120 drive itself was toast, so it was a good application. The hole left by the removal of the Centronics connector was the perfect size for passing a 34-conductor ribbon cable from the floppy drive.

What was surprising was that the external ATA-USB converter would handle ATAPI things like Caleb UHD drives just fine. I haven't tried one with a CD-ROM drive, but I suspect that it might work also.
 
By the way @Chuck(G) I finally got that backpack external parallel METAL drive I bought from you years ago working. It was a matter of the wrong power supply (strict AC voltage requirements) and software. But it works great now.. only took forever and a day.
 
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I still have a BP 3.5" floppy kit still in shrinkwrap. Don't know whether to sell it or hang onto it...
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Im glad I have it. They are a nice thing to have. But if you can get a pretty penny for a sealed unit and its of no immediate use to you. Go for it.
 
Nope, it's good old Shel Silverstein plastic...
I do have a metal one. Takes a 13.5VAC wall wart and the cable is permanently attached, unlike the later ones, which take a 9VAC wall wart and have a bulkhead connector for the cable. Even later ones wimp out on the power supply, I think.
 
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