Expert: DaZ FiZzle - 6/25/2009

Question
Hello Daz,
It looks like people somewhat abandoned floppy nowadays.
I remembered there exists a socket accepting floppy in mainboard.
Mainboards made around these years still have a floppy socket?

Answer
hey moil,

yeah they still do.  go to the link i'll provide below and look at the top-down view of the motherboard.  there is an orange heatsink that says black series on it; to the right and below of that is 3 black pci slots, to the right of the pci slots is a shorter black port with lots of pins.  that's the floppy connector.  i think it's a 34-pin slot...i could be wrong though, i haven't used one of those in years.  

also FYI: the yellow port at the top with pins (40 i believe) is an IDE port, used for hard drives and optical drives, and the orange sockets above the heatsink are SATA (the "new" standard).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowImage.aspx?CurImage=13-135-085-S03&ISList=13-1...(V1.0)%20ATX%20AMD%20Motherboard%20-%20Retail


peace,
-DaZ