For what it's worth, while I was living with my parents and didn't have my own job, I was pretty limited in what I could buy, I think this applies to just about everybody on this forum. It continues to be in poor taste to directly ask for handouts though, and it's even worse to suggest that the rest of us are bad people because we have the money to buy this type of hardware, and you don't.
It kind of disheartens me when I see people wanting this because it's "cool" and "convenient", when for me it's my only hope of a floppy drive, and I can't have it.
Maybe one day you'll be able to pay for cool and convenient upgrades to TWENTY year old machines that only become practical for basic text processing tasks when you put a few hundred dollars of decade-newer upgrades into them. Until then, you've done a surprising job of making do with what you have, Keep it up until something comes along. Maybe your parents will surprise you with a disbursement to get new parts at some point in the near future.
Still, I'd rather have a real drive clunking away, even if this is "cool".
And I'm sure you'd rather hear the screeching of a dial-up modem. It's interesting, how hilariously hipsterish you are about this hardware given that 100% of it was built before you were born.