I've seen these combination floppy/media drives built into PCs:
I've also seen external USB 3.5" floppy drives:
Has anyone seen an external, USB powered combo drive? One gizmo I can lug around and read pretty much anything (floppies, CD, CF cards, etc.)
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I've got several. They're called laptops. But they'll stretch your definition of ONE cause I use flash card adapters that plug into the cardbus slot.
I was checking out the hardware snooper on my Dell notebook and noticed the built in SDHC reader is on the PCI bus. I would had bet they used USB, but apparently not. Obviously PCI is faster. I have one of those cardbus to compact flash adapters. Good stuff.
That certainly would be faster. But I've used a CF/SD/etc to USB adapter for my purposes and it works OK. I was hoping to find one combo external unit that includes a 3.5" floppy so as not to have to lug a whole pile of adapters around with me.
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