There's something uniquely satisfying about the CLICK of putting a 3.5-inch floppy disk in the drive, and it's a shame you don't get to enjoy it anymore. That is, unless you are Dr. Moddnstine and you trick out an old drive to work with disks that are modded to have the space of a thumb-drive.

If you haven't guessed already, that's not a typical disk or a typical drive. Instead of the little pancake of magnetic tape that most floppy disks have inside, thess disks are actually just mostly empty pieces of plastic that have been modified to fit normal SD cards—which can sport capacities in the hundreds of GB instead of the paltry 1 MB an actual floppy can hold.

Moddnstine explains and demonstrates the drive in a video about his latest build, which is all about sticking state of the art tech in a 1995-era body:

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For more nitty, gritty details on exactly how this works, you can hop over to Imgur to check out a full album for the build, and scroll down to the last few images which concern the modified drive specifically. It doesn't look too hard so long as you have some basic technical know how. And good thing too, I can hardly think of a project that offers such a great mix of throwback to the good ol' days with all the creature comforts of modern tech to boot.

Source: gilmour509/Dr. Moddinstine via Reddit

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