First post, by yawetaG
Just spotted this article on The Register, about a compact flash adapter that can replace a floppy drive (and fits into a floppy drive bay) and that looks like a floppy drive to the computer's BIOS, marketed specially at people and companies that still have old (industrial) hardware.
It's a drop-in replacement for a floppy disk drive and takes CompactFlash solid state cards instead of floppy disk media. The firmware is field-upgradable via an included USB port.
The device has a 3.5-inch footprint and uses a standard 34 pin floppy disk drive connection, needing a 5V power supply. It also supports 26 pin / 34 pin slim and Shugart floppy connections.
Data transfer rates can be set between 125 Kbits and 500 Kbit/s depending on whether the matching encoding method is FM, MFM or MMFM. The emulated track configuration is programmable.
I can see this as being very useful in retro computers.