In today's world of high capacity and high
speed storage devices like SSD's everyone wants to get rid of
old floppy disk and traditional Floppy Drives. The best
way to do is to use floppy to usb so that the equipment can use
usb as floppy. Unluckily few
our older machines , manufactured in 70's, 80's are still
dependent or Floppy disks for their prime functionality. Now we
have introduced high quality and rugged devices called floppy
drive emulators. These floppy drive to usb emulators can practically replace any
floppy drive ranging from 1.44mb , 720 kb , 1.2 mb , 1mb with
34 pin as well as 26 pin ziff type interface , with full height
and half height versions.
Convert your legacy Floppy disk drive with our
floppy to usb!
Use USB Pen Drive instead of delicate and easily
destructible Floppy disks !
Users can store information of up to 100 floppy disk on
single flash drive
and can operate on the data using these intelligent floppy drive
top usb emulators!
With the speedy growth and progress of USB technology, especially
USB storage devices and the fast and reliable SSD media, traditional and
delicate had to move out of the phase of IT and storage
processes.
Lucky were those segment of users who had an
option or an easy alternative to change to the SSD / USB storage
devices. But there is a large segment of users who still have no
alternative as the machines on which the floppy drives are
installed does not have any usb interface , or the controllers
of these machines does have a very high cost of upgrade. The
most cost effective solution for these customers is to install
floppy to usb so that they can use usb as floppy. There
are many many old machines and devices that are working on old floppy
disk drives as the only way of accessing data for processing and
can be upgraded to use floppy to usb.
These machines are for various categories of users like Robotics
from ABB+, CNC , EDM, Wire Cutting , Medical equipments ,
Knitting , Textile manufacturing , embroidery and several
musical instruments from Yamaha and Korg are still fully
dependent on floppy drives and so can be upgraded to use usb as
floppy. Specially the
industrial users have to waste lot of resources like money, time
& efforts in inputting data in the machines
using floppy disks.
The Good News is that our new floppy drive to usb has
brought a ray of hope and freedom from floppy disks for
these users.
Now no more waste of time and financial resources as these users you will
have complete freedom from floppy disks and will never ever require floppy
drives. Using these intelligent floppy to usb will
provide users a secure and guaranteed long term solution to the problem of transferring data
in industrial machines.
Few of the worries with old Floppy Disk Drive:
- Difficult to avail on retail stores.
- Gets damaged by
- these Floppy disk when are placed in the range of apparatus generating Magnetic effects like Phones,
voltage Stabilizers etc loose their contents due to
magnetism
- Dust is the enemy of these Floppy disk and are very
quickly effected by dusty places
- These get wearied out due to mechanically movement
- Now a day the ratio of bad: good floppy disk in a new box
is 7:3 on first use
- Low storage capacity
Features of our Floppy to usb:
- Each floppy disk drive in equipments needs to be replaced
with one Floppy to
usb or one usb as floppy. This new
invention of floppy drive
to usb has been manufactured in such a way that the connections
of interface and power are same, so the installation process
needs ZERO customization while replacing the
floppy disk drive with this floppy disk to usb.
- Each USB Flash Drive that is to be used in these floppy
drive to usb can store data of 100 floppy disks at a time.
- These floppy disk to usb USB and usb flash drives are almost resistant rather immune to
damages created from the magnetic field, untidy dusty environment
and shocks.
- A software which is provided at Zero cost with floppy
drive to usb, which formats a USB flash drive in 100
partitions of 1.44/1.2/720 kb size each.
These Floppy to USB are boon for all
end users who are still stuck with old floppy disk drive
for transfer data.
The most noticeable feature of floppy drive to usb is that Zero
customizations needs to be done at equipment level. Its Just Plug and Play!
| Ports, buttons and display
of the Floppy to USB (Original Colour of the product may differ ) |
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This USB as floppy gives a new life to your old machines as it takes
over the place of substitutes the old legacy floppy disk drive!
- Data of upto 100 floppy disk size on a single USB
Flash Drive!
- Reliable media of storage!
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Types of
available Interface for Floppy to usb
1.) 34 Pin Standard FDD Interface
- These version of floppy drive to usb are with
standard FDD height
and are available in 1.44 MB , 720 KB Double Density and 1.2 MB
format versions 2.)
26 Pin Ziff Type FDD Interface
- These versions of floppy to usb are with
Half height or slim
version which are available in 1.44 MB and 1.2 MB format
versions 3.) USB Port Floppy
Emulator -
These 1.44 MB versions of usb as floppy are
for new generation computers and laptops which do not come with
standard 34 pin FDD Interface. These act as a USB Floppy drive
for these machines when plugged on the USB port. Specifications
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Floppy Drive to USB |
Details |
| Interface |
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• USB socket Type A |
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4-pin socket like drive for voltage supply |
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34-pin / 26 Pin type Ziff socket for controller |
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| Compatibility |
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FAT12 File System |
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Fix sector of size: 512 bytes/sector |
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3.5" -1.44MB: 80 tracks/18 sector |
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5.25"-1.2MB: 80 tracks /15 sector |
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3.5"- 720kB: 80 tracks /9 sector |
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| Diagnostics LEDs |
Busy-Green |
| Display |
Two-digit, 7 segment display to display current virtual .
block |
| Voltage supply |
5 V DC (ranges 4.5 5.5 V DC) 4pin voltage socket for 3.5"
drive |
| Casing |
Smoke Grey/Black Plastic case |
| Frame size |
3.5 inches and
Half Height /Slim versions |
| Measurements W/H/D |
approximately 100 mm - 25 mm -122 mm |
| Temperature range |
0 to 65 C |
| Relative humidity |
5% to 90% ( non-condensing) |
| Scope of supply |
Floppy Disk to
usb Converter
(Connect like a legacy 3.5" . drive)
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| Switches on Front Panel |
Left- 10-90 ,
Right- 00-09 |
| Price Per Unit |
US $55 to $180 ( based on different Model ) |
Colour / Specs may change without any prior notice
Why should I Convert Floppy to USB?
From last so many years the floppy disk and the slow RS232
serial communication was the unique means to transfer data from a computer to system. These days
the floppy discs are phasing out and are very hard to find in computers and are
rarely seen on any shops. So in different countries like UK & USA vendors are providing
replacements of floppy drives. But, what will happen if a very expensive industrial machines is
stalled for just because that there is no floppy drive compatible to your
machine in the market to replace the defective floppy disk drive. We definitely hope that
users will not be with the mind to store hundreds of them to keep the machine running?
Now there is no need to worry, as almost everyone has and
alternative which will allows to convert
floppy to
usb on almost any industrial machine or old computer currently
working on floppy drive. The best thing is that there is no need to change or
upgrade any
software or any wiring circuit so as to upgrade the old machines to use USB as
floppy. You only need to swap the floppy to usb by replacing the old floppy drive with this
usb as floppy. There are no tedious steps involved in it , and no engineering
level experience required to use the floppy to usb. Just disconnect the old floppy drive and
change with the new floppy disk to usb and that's all!
After swapping the floppy drive with floppy disk to usb your machine will now be able to
run for another many more years without any worries of floppy drive and you will
be able to use usb as floppy.
How floppy drive to usb works?
The floppy to usb gets
itself installed on the standard 34 pin or 26 pin Ziff type interface of machine
and fools the machines as if it was still connected with a floppy drive. When
the machine tries to read or write or try to perform any action of floppy disk
drive, it sends a signal to floppy drive to usb which is
connected on the FDD channel. Here the magic of floppy drive to usb
starts. It reads the USB pen drive connected and then
emulates the data to be processed as a floppy drive thereby treating usb as
floppy, thereby transferring the data to the
machine/device/equipment in the same way that is used by standard floppy drives. In
simple words, your
equipment will never come to know that the information it was trying to get
actually came from a USB flash drive.
Embroidery machines like Tajima, Melco, SWF, Lasser , Saurer
, Happy , Barudan and Brother can easily be configured to read from USB Flash
drives using these easy to install floppy to usb.
Just for the compatibility issues there are 2 different
dimensions of floppy disk to usb available with us. One is the
standard 34 pin full height interface version of floppy to usb which
comes with 3 different format versions i.e 1.44mb , 720 kb double density and
1.2 mb formats. The second type of floppy drive to usb is with 26 pin Ziff type interface with half
height slim version which comes is 1.44 , 720 kb double density versions.
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