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Floppy Interfacing Hack Chat with Adafruit

Adafruit's Limor "Ladyada" Fried and Phillip Torrone will host the Hack Chat on Wednesday, February 2 at noon Pacific / 3pm Eastern. https://hackaday.io/event/183426-floppy-interfacing-hack-chat-with-adafruit When a tiny fleck of plastic-covered silicon can provide enough capacity to store a fair percentage of humanity's collected knowledge, it may seem like a waste of time to be fooling around with archaic storage technology like floppy disks. With several orders of magnitude less storage capacity than something like even the cheapest SD card or thumb drive, and access speeds that clock in…

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