Using a Floppy Disk Drive on a Smartphone 

Gotta love the raw versatility of Android

Only if apple would use dongles the right way

Linux power

@@Digalog I love Linux. It works with basically everything

It’s not magic, it isn’t even smart...it’s called usb (universal serial bus) UNIVERSAL! dumbasses!!! And for the record,you can use that usb floppy on an iPhone as well, clearly no one here is smart enough to fully utilize your iPhone to its full potential. SHOCKER that Apple users are useless 😂😂😂 idiots.

Wouldn't it be funny to lug that model m keyboard around, plop down on a park bench and start sending texts with it. Just to see the look on people's faces.

@@JustWasted3HoursHere I would do odd stuff like that just for laughs

RichardKidd2010 Yes PK

Yes very impressive on the surface?

How about RS232 usb adapter in the OTG? I have heard that it works as well. I could contact my 2020 phone with my 1982 CNC lathe and run it with the dos software from 1995 if I wanted to.

That's why I'm tired of the shit Microsoft and Sony give the players that want it but it's "too difficult and ridden with technical issues"

The really UNIVERSAL use of USB, which can provide us extreme backwards compatibility.

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Anyone ever wonder why your "newer" PCs start with drive C:? What's happened to Drives A and B; why are those designations still reserved? (still for floppy access?)

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Truuuuue

50 years? that's gonna happend in 10 years!

Kind like we do know with Doom runing on calculators and smart fridges.

Could you imagine going to the coffee shop, pulling your new $1,000 phone out of your pocket along with an OTG cable (nothing really spectacular)...but then pulling out a 3.5" diskette drive and a diskette I could just hear and see it now, dead silence and death stares HAHA!!! Excellent.

Hey man it’s a lot more portable than a Kaypro :p

If you used a less magnificent (and heavy) keyboard the whole kit would weigh less than my laptop.

David Key He was just showing us how it would actually work and I think it's HELLA cool. Android rocks!!

Dude, you totally missed an opportunity to mention that this can't be done on an iPhone.

I'd say it's more like having a car tow a horse.

William Kulich except that's actually a thing (horse trailer)

Yes it's gone too deep into obsolete tech this time.

More like using a car to replace the horse in a chariot.

whats wrong with being a nerd? you got something against nerds? ...

Albert Einstein lmao

And you think Einstein was a genius??? He got lucky but most of his theories inaccurate hence why we have to make quantum physics to vill the huge voids Einstein left he is nit nearly the genius people credit him to be

@@jacksong6226 dude ta fak

Check out Techmoan on here if you want to see more... I guess obscure technology from the past. Like I never knew that wire recorders existed. New reel to reel players and strange devices that barely lasted a year

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Инцест какой-то

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Right, exactly the whole point of LGR. :D

Lon.TV yep times sure do change

The craziest thing - we've had it for many, many years. Many early 2000s mobile devices were already powerful enough to run ports of games such as DOOM, or even fully-fledged emulators like those for the PSP (it can even run PS1 and Nintendo 64 stuff!) - they just didn't have neat USB ports like now our phones do. Later in the decade, we would have e.g. SEGA saying that the original iPhone was as powerful as the Dreamcast (kotaku.com/5026060/sega-the-iphone-is-as-powerful-as-the-dreamcast). We _do_ have more power in our pockets than _desktops_ in the 2000s, and in fact more powerful than most were like five-ten years ago - think 1-4 GB of RAM, early Intel Core processors with two cores, quite competent GPUs for 1080p games at most... and now compare to flagships which can be bought from as little as $400-500 when looking well enough, or even cheaper phones.

espectalll And we use this power generally for posting food and hips on instagram

NuntiusLegis Some USB-C devices support DisplayPort and/or HDMI, sooooooooo yeah, could be possible?

Arm cortex A73 can do 6,35 (25 with 4 cores) practical instruction per cycle (a A9 can do 2.5 for reference, 10 with 4 cores) (A7, A8 and A9 have simular design, A15, A32, A35 and A53 have similar design, but A53 have more power, Simuarly A57 and A73 is somewhat similar) That calculate 1.5Ghz for the A9 and 2,8Gz for the A73.. Giving us 7,5G instruction per second for A9 (2 core) and 70 for a A73 (4 core). So lets se if we can find a simular older CPU in performance. Closest match for a A9 dual core is a AMD Athlon XP 2500+ that at 1.8Ghz preform 7,52Gips. Closest match for a A73 at 71Gips is a AMD Phenom II X6 1100T at 78Gips. A9 with this specification hit the market around 2009, the XP 2500+ hit the market around 2001. A73 hit the market 2016 and the Phenom II X6 in 2010. So it would seam like the mobile CPU lag about 6-8 year after. This is not quite correct. Generally the Mobile CPU take a lot longer to reach market, up to two years longer. Neither desktop CPU was top tear either. Closest top tear to the A73 would be a Intel Core i7 920 (4-core). Now we talking 2008. Ad 1 or 2 exta years for mobile CPU to hit mass market, and that would give 9-10 year lag. Its stil pretty close. The diffrance on the GPU side is quite a bit bigger. One importante take a way from this is that stationary CPU of the same year generaly have a lot higher IPC. Intel Core i7 920 from 2008 have over 7 while A9 from 2009 have only 2,5. Simuarly for 2016 the A73 have 6,3 while Intel Core i7 from the same year have over 10. But it seams like the gap is closing. The IPC race seams to be over. The same way the frequency race was over in early 2000. Now we are on the core race. That said. For single threaded aplication, mobile CPU pretty much cought up

@@iamnid I totally would if I had a desktop setup! First thing I'd fire up would be One Must Fall 2097 on DosBox mmm.

@@Fractal_blip so many awesome ones out there now!

I too had floppy disks with "rare" manga and anime pictures saved from any online terminal I could find back then... Some took like five minutes to load on screen on our family offline 386.

I was actually more suprised about the fact that he OPENED AN .exe FILE ON A PHONE!

350Z boi It's dosbox. It's not that surprising. DosBox has been on android for a while

I know, i mean you probably can't play post-2000 games. It was just weird seeing it for the first time

Nah there was a bunch of stuff that fit but that didn't work -- the 90s was terrible for it -- like people were plugging Atari joysticks into their PC com ports and wondering why it didn't work. -- Today everything is USB and you can just plug it in and it will work. Hence how he's able to plug a floppy drive into his phone. ;-)

@@BrainSlugs83 atari isn't a 90s pc though...

i just plugged a xbox360 wireless usb antenna to a Samsung note 2 multimedia dock... i dont know how but it recognized my wireless xbox360 controller and a playstation sixaxis one via bluetooth at the same time while connected to a crt sony trinitron wega with a hdmi to component adapter. Played Zelda Ocarina of time. now i tried with my Samsung note 4 and the joysticks are not seen by android :C but i think i can change my rom from XDA developers to make it work

I have the same phone he does lol

@@morphman86 no, but 90's pc's did have serial ports, which used the same connector as an Atari 2600/7800 joystick. But, if you really want to be OCD about it, he could have said Genesis controller, and it would have been the exact same connector, with the exact same result as the Atari controller, just with a controller for a console that was around in the 90's. But that's really all just semantics here. His point was that the serial (COM) port had the DB9 plug, just like MANY joysticks, but the serial port was not compatible with those DB9 console joysticks.

G. Confalonieri XD, YUP

@@realvivifromloona sorry I'm german and my english is not so good. That you take my little mistakes so closely shows that you're just an Apple fanboy.

@@realvivifromloona The comment is relevant to the video as he's saying that iPhone users are sad that they cannot do this. You're probably one of those users that he's referring to. You're mad salty bruv.

@@fungusaz4887 yeah he's being a dick. This is the internet not an English assignment.

@@realvivifromloona triggered!

@@realvivifromloona again . . triggered!

Not as mind blowing as Android running on a old DOS PC.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

No, what's nonsense are the people who call storing things on these floppies secure. The drives are available on Walmart.com for $20.

You're joking, right? Both the Pentagon and Norway's Doctors are examples of people not only still using the technology on a regular basis but also claiming they're more secure than alternatives. gizmodo.com/norways-doctors-still-use-floppy-disks-and-theyre-more-1733353595 and cloudhesive.com/pentagons-use-of-floppy-disks-probably-safer-than-newer-technologies/

And to be fair, converting an 8 inch floppy drive to USB is tougher and more expensive than 3.5 inch, since those just exist as end market products, but it's certainly not impossible.

I have never even seen an 8 inch floppy, and I have been computing for 30+ years... So, it's safe to say that those are RARE. They were rare and obsolete even in the mid 1980s.

Iphone*

When I get my iPhone 11 I’m definitely gonna find a way to make it read floppy disks tbh

@@khoado2060 what about the front camera

@@av28379 r/woooosh as fuck

CyberXarex YT what’s the joke

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Please don't ruin for us what Clint does in his spare time. This is a PG channel. I'm sure he has various personal relationships with older equipment that are none of our business.

;)

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:3 Of course someone had to make it weird I love it

resident grigo You know he had to 😎

I alreadey have seen the computer and the floppy drive. Now I also like the phone.

resident grigo You mean the phone? Of course it had to be woodgrain. This is LGR we're talking about, after all. Woodgrain is a necessity.

What else could it possibly be?

@@4Wilko With LGR, he'd probably jump at the possibility of a phone with an all-wood body. Actually, there is a wood called 'lignim vitae'. Supposedly a wood that's even tougher than ironwood. Now I'M getting interested in the possibility....

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Totally agree. The fact any of this works is both surprising, and not at all surprising... brilliant!

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Yeah, much better than being dead and rotting away.

Always looking at the bright side of life, that's what I like about you Frank.

StockyDoccy, look at the bright side, quite probably you will be reincarnated later as a Chinese or inbred muslim... ;) Don't worry, life will be nothing like it is for you today!

My money's on technology advancing enough in about 50 years that we can upload our consciousness to the internet, so if you're younger than 30, immortality is a very real possibility for you.

Psythik But how would you know, whether the uploaded and duplicated consciousness is the "real you" or just a copy and a consciousness of its own... When you die, your consciousness doesn't just magically reappear in the copy, although it seems so from an outside observer's perspective.

No need for Ethernet, the phones already have Wi-Fi...

@@BrainSlugs83 Where's the fun in that? And use a dial up modem.

Maniura no

Maniura I had DOOM running on DosBox on my iPad mini! It ran great! I even had a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard so it was fully functional. It wouldn’t be too difficult to hook up a Head to Head lan party!

@@andregon4366 And plug the phone's screen to a CRT monitor

That could be awesome!!!!

Theoretically, there are USB C Lan adapters for android… So YES

OR you can install gzdoom app and play via wifi

Install KALI on it, and run Duke Nukem 3d Multiplayer!

It is actually possible to use a USB Ethernet cable and make this in to a LAN party. But you could just go regular Wifi. But hey, what would be the fun in that right? :P

Chef Of Chernobyl it takes multiple floppy disks, you would need to install it

There is a port of Doom 2 in the appstore. Alot easier

@@alphatrion100 not when this was posted 7 months ago

I was waiting for him to pull out a keyboard I remember doing some otg things on the Nexus 5 way back when

Awesome!!!!!

I had to interface a dot matrix printer at work for a POS-like application. IT had a built-in USB port and a RS-232 port (I'm not surprised)

The interface is the limitation. This video shows that very clearly IMO. Smart phones are on par with PCs 10 years ago. Pretty fast, but they still have a long ways to go and battery capacity as well as being limited to passive cooling is certainly a limiting factor.

I really liked Microsoft's idea of being able to connect a monitor, keyboard, and mouse to a phone and use it as a low powered desktop. It's too bad that their phone's OS was so crappy. -- It would have sold better if it had been compatible with Android. -- They'd still be making phones today if they had been.

@@BrainSlugs83 i forgot windows phones even existed

Leeki85 I think it’s about what the end user wants. I’ve been using Mac since about 1994 and have no use for DOS (and can’t imagine a MAC user from that era would want to), though I appreciate the novelty of loading it onto a phone, but my iPhone does everything I want to do and I don’t feel constricted. I find shoehorning certain experiences into a phone just doesn’t work, though with some accessories (eg a game pad or a keyboard) there is some limited functionality. If I need more I just go back to my laptop.

I used. To think the same way when I had my Sony Xperia phone but honestly now. I just want my phone to make calls, write texts, video calling is handy and some light boredom browsing or RU-vid browsing and I find iPhone far superior for those things. Anything else like gaming or emulation I have a windows laptop and a Modded OG Xbox. You can’t beat iOS for ease of use and not having to keep messing about with cache cleaning etc. With Android your forever sorting it out to keep it running nice

@@LeeBondo In the future smartphones won't even have a touchscreen or any sort of interaction. It will just do what it wants you to want it to do.

IE EE

Theoretically it's possible

Dot matrix printer.

Couldn't you just use the camera?

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Normaly you use the USB for HDD connection.

There was a time when I was learning to speedrun Quake that I played during a trip using a Android phone, a USB mouse connected via OTG and my older phone (that had a physical keyboard) connected via Bluetooth to act as a keyboard Obviously it wasn't anywhere near playing on a PC but I had the idea and wanted to know if it was possible :P

+David Wegmuller My Amazon Fire HD8 tablet does that too (FireOS is basically a reskinned version of Android with the Google Play Store removed...before I put it back).

Android is based off of the Linux kernel the same as any Linux distro so really none of this should be surprising. At the same time it's like finding an easter egg in a video game.

That's not too surprising if you dig into the underlying systems; You'll find that mouse, keyboard and touchscreen are all unique devices recognised by the system. But it's also worth remembering that: 1. Linux kernel (thankfully none of the god-awful GNU crap on top of it though.) 2. Android exists on more than just phones; Also includes tablets, set top boxes, small laptop-like devices, single chip computers, etc. So, the underlying system has to support a bunch of different form factors, several of which by definition lack any touchscreen hardware.

Just plugged in my mouse to my phone, and had myself a good laugh. Never would have expected that to work.

+KuraIthys Why do you not like the GNU packages?

Thank you, sir!

YES A RABBIT! !

Drink a Beer and Play a Game #madscientist

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Thats what I told my lawyer

Moonbeam they would probably think you did not know what the word phone meant.

Given the size of phones in the 80's and 90's we are quickly heading back that direction to bloated sized phones.

Adam Hovey, When I was a kid, we could barely stream music from internet. If you told me that we can stream videos in 1080p I surely would be mesmerized.

as you can stream in 4K today. That's even more amazing

Thea Blanca even 8k

Hahaha! I have a mavica right here that just needs a charger. You just gave me and idea.

I think he made a video about Mavicas :-)

ah, I see you are a funnee boi

Cameron Massey 😎

Me too

Max Mass we're everywhere

RoachDoggJr I love seeing roach dogs in different comment sections

That's Linux for ya

It’s just usb mass storage presumably

Meh Android has a very different userland than desktop GNU/Linux. This is one of those things that I'd expect to be supported at some level but not exposed to the user without hackery.

XCVGVCX still the floppy divers are probably part of the linux kernel

lots of usb devices intended for PCs work on android, though. ethernet adapters, usb hard drives, keyboard and mice. after seeing this, i wouldn't be surprised if you could connect a DVD reader as well. Maybe even a DVD writer? Android is not just a phone OS. Tablets can use it too, and some tablets are used as laptop replacements with keyboards attached. A wide support of peripherals makes sense for this use case, when it's already supported by the kernel.

David Herrera iOS should be able to do this too with the Camera Conversion Kit dongle as long the USB floppy drive makes it think you're plugging in a USB storage device. The only thing really preventing it is the lack of a similar app on the App Store

Peanut Turner At least you can do ot. I’m pretty sure I can’t do that on my Sony Ericsson Z310i (the best of what 2007 technology could offer).

It's so disheartening to see how many RU-vidrs don't have LG K7 phone cases.

I don't think you could even do it on an iPhone!

Apples business model is awful. They only let you do what they want you to do. And they tell you what you want to do. I like to do whatever I wanna do with my tech. Like make my own ringtone or have my own wallpaper, play my own music from cd's I've ripped to MP3. You know, use your stuff.

What? You *can't* do this on iPhone, no matter how many hoops you jump through. It's not possible