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External 5.25" Floppy Drive?
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... |
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