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The most common/cheap solution is the Gotek floppy drive, easily found on Aliexpress or eBay, and with the FlashFloppy firmware [1] for expanding the capabilities of the hardware.

Since I'm nitpicking, it's not an IDE interface, as there's no IDE floppy drives :)

[1] https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy




> Since I'm nitpicking, it's not an IDE interface, as there's no IDE floppy drives :)

Well, LS-120 were available in ATAPI, which is at least IDE adjacent, if you don't want to call it IDE.


Iomega’s stuff was also available in SCSI and USB (and possibly firewire) variants, but probably not on industrial machinery, and it’s hardly a prototypical floppy… we’re stretching definitions here




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