Oscilloscope Floppy Conversion
It’s 2017. My phone is more capable than the computer I had 10 years ago. My Hyundai has a touchscreen in its dashboard. And, if I felt so inclined, I could purchase a highly-capable, new digital storage oscilloscope for less than $400.
In 1996, my LeCroy 3950AL would have cost more than my Hyundai was worth new. It has a bandwidth of 500 MHz, a sampling rate of 1 GHz, and a floppy drive. I got it on eBay for $150.
For home use, my LeCroy is perfect. However, this was not always the case. Call me spoiled but I have no desire to jockey diskettes for every screenshot I want to capture. After a few trips down memory lane, I decided to rid the beast of its nostalgia factor by replacing its unconventionally mounted floppy drive with an emulator.