On Aug 6, 10:24 pm, "Eric" wrote:
Hi,

Don't laugh, but has anyone come across such an animal that will work with
modern PC's?
Or has anyone cannibalized a 3.5" external floppy and used the guts to get a
5.25" floppy talking?

I would need it to work with everything from 360K SS/SD to 1.2MB DS/DD
floppies.

I have a ton of 5.25" floppies that I want to get archived onto a CD before
they are lost to time. Believe it or not, almost all of a large sample
that I tested are still readable. The old 5.25" drives themselves are still
functioning fine. (They were used TRS-80's Cocos, not PC's, back in the
day.)

Can always just stick one of the 5.25" drives into a PC interally, of
course, but thought putting together something external would be convienent.

Thanks...

I'm not laughing..............at you. I'm laughing at MY reactions a
few years ago when a buddy asked me to fix his "floppy". I was
totally intrigued by the sight of this, more so what went INTO it. It
WAS floppy! :-)
AND it actually WORKED! The actual floppy reminded me of these funny
"talking cards" bought on holiday at Blackpool. I'm glad you have
still the original drive. It will soon be a valuable collector's
item.:-)
Good luck, Eric.