News Floppy Drive Sized SBC Crams Intel Tiger Lake and Iris Xe

[Admin]

A new Taiwanese single-board computer has enormous flexibility, with a Tiger Lake CPU and lots of ports

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[peachpuff]

What's a floppy?

 

[TerryLaze]

What's a floppy?

A floppy is something the size of a current laptop...well, almost.
Title should specify 3.5"

 

[mikeebb]

Back in the day ... there were single-board PCs that would actually fit in a half-height 5 1/4" floppy bay. Saw some at the Computer Faire's bazaar while searching for a pair of floppies and a case to add on to my Radio Shack Model 1. A two-drive floppy case could hold the computer and a floppy - enough to work with. A 4-drive (half-height, equivalent to 2 full-height floppies) case could hold 2 floppies or one and a hard disk (mostly 10-20MB at the time) along with the computer. Not popular with hobbyists, but perhaps industrial. Simply the fact that you could get a complete computer on a board that size was amazing at the time.

 

[JWNoctis]

"Desktop hard drive sized" might have been a better description...But that sure doesn't sound as good. Many younger readers are probably as familiarized to a floppy drive as the average latter-day 3.5in floppy users to punched tapes and cards.

The logical next step would be a single board computer the size, including thickness, of an actual 3.5in floppy.

 

[DataMeister]

It seems like this could make for a pretty powerful 2-bay NAS. Now what case options are there for this with two 3.5" drive bays?