Re: My parents asked me to get the data off a floppy disk recently.
"[...] otherwise I may need to acquire a USB floppy drive."
You may find that a USB 3.5" floppy cannot be reconfigured for non-DOS sector/track permutations - which the old PC internal ones could handle.
Even worse is when a relative produces an old Amstrad word processor 3" floppy to be read. No one has ever asked to retrieve data off a "magnetic bubble floppy" that one home computer (Sharp?) used.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
