On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 01:47:54 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote:
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> Naturally it wouldn't be cost-effective to realign a 3.5" 1.44 MB drive, but
> maybe with 5.25" drives, since replacements are difficult or impossible to find.
> My 5.25" drive is no longer working, and I have some data I would like to
> rescue, though the great majority of my data on 5.25" diskettes is outdated. I
> would need 1.2 MB drive, not 360K. I don't really know for sure the drive went
> bad, maybe it's the cable or controller. If the drive is bad, I wouldn't know
> if it was bad alignment. How many people still use 5.25" 360K drives?
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I can acquire 5.25" floppy drives at flea markets around here. 360K drives
go from $1 to $5 each and 1.2 MB drives from $5 to $8. I installed a 360K
floppy drive in my son's 133 Mhz Pentium. Many people on this list and
also some on the SurvPC list to include myself are still using our XTs from
time to time. All of the XTs that I know of will not work with any floppy
drives other than the 360K drives. As late as 1997 I have seen XTs in use
and running in county government offices in Shenandoah County, Virginia,
where I live. At that time many of our elected local officials were
opposed to wasting the taxpayers' money on computer upgrades, except for
the computers used in the county schools and libraries. They felt that
only the young people really needed the latest computer technology.
Things have changed now and they have raised our taxes for unnecessary
expenditures. Nowadays many of the old geezers are letting themselves to
be misguided by the younger generation.
Sam Heywood
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