On 2024-01-15 15:54, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> On 2024-01-15 15:06, James wrote:
> > On 2024-01-15 13:28, Nash JC - NCF wrote:
> > >The subject is the topic. Does anyone have a device/machine that
> > >still reads 5.25" floppies. There's a library/archive at Bishops U.
> > >looking to do this for a non-exorbitant cost. Amazon popped up a
> > >device for about 30 microseconds, and it wasn't expensive, but gone
> > >now.
>
> Wow, your browser is way more responsive than mine! ;-)
>
> > >I have a curiosity interest, but only one or two old disks that I
> > >don't need to read.
> > >
> > >JN
> >
> > https://www.amazon.ca/20%C3%9715%C3%973-Neutral-External-Portable-Diskette/dp/B0CCSHRF3W/ref=sr_1_28?crid=JH6W6FJHV59S&keywords=floppy+disk+reader&qid=1705349101&sprefix=floppy+disk+reader%2Caps%2C311&sr=8-28
>
> I wasn't planning to reply to this thread...
>
> Since when has a 5.25" floppy ever been able to hold 1.44M of data?
>
> That looks like a mis-labelled 3.5" drive.
>
> I've already got one of these external 3.5" USB floppy drives.
>
> Here's the best I could find on Amazon.ca:
>
> https://www.amazon.ca/Teac-FD235HFC929-Black-Green-Compliant/dp/B000FVDLAU/ref=pd_rhf_dp_s_di_int_pop_multi_srecs_sabr_cn_d_sccl_1_5/140-5373003-7372012?pd_rd_w=gxtII&content-id=amzn1.sym.2e0520d1-37e7-41f7-a665-14791b1d5ad1&pf_rd_p=2e0520d1-37e7-41f7-a665-14791b1d5ad1&pf_rd_r=4PFRPC7P5P40CAJ6M49J&pd_rd_wg=ohdpP&pd_rd_r=8d75b733-0534-49c5-9622-2a2de1fbc258&pd_rd_i=B000FVDLAU&psc=1
Scratch that. Even that is 3.5".
Here we go, similar price:
https://www.amazon.ca/FD-55GFR-142-U-1-2MB-Floppy-Drive/dp/B01N1IB39E/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1WUQ167KITAJ9&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1Kj1qJtR7aCHze8HLsuF-D4RX_O6SkSRtcauTVoQK53Aw8h1yXksrKV7ZyrCm7465ptQmixfBDN_EXGyNgAiewWyJC3r0BnjM4xaJb00iAKbJtTO8KLa_AwbrAodgQk0n8LK1X53UxlU4_Niz9SyAr11oiVXUg6IvNKOp66egxO8mZpNR70TPiNpfQg2umNWO26_9BfDrtI-zRoC5rmjokLxscI1Y1ymYpTJPwc1hE8.SqLiwRiAm0ojAZ1-RX0_a-5PpFpS51jnkhrsdRqtDjA&dib_tag=se&keywords=1200kb+5.25%22+floppy+drive&qid=1705352357&s=electronics&sprefix=1200kb+5+25+floppy+drive%2Celectronics%2C83&sr=1-3
> However, that is an internal parallel interface.
>
>
> I also have a Dell Precision 370 machine here with both 5.25" and 3.5"
> internal parallel interface floppy drives. It ran Linux. I haven't
> booted it in at least a decade... It does have USB and Ethernet
> interfaces, so the chances of getting that data off a 5.25" to something
> usefully modern are non-zero.
>
>
> I have at least two other older machines with both 5.25" and 3.5" floppy
> drives, including one that was an early OCLUG tux machine that predates
> the OCLUG tux V20z Sun Fire 1U blade that is still in my DEC 19" rack
> (including its identical HW backup). The V20z machines have 3.5"
> floppies and CD/DVD only.
>
>
> slainte mhath, RGB
slainte mhath, RGB
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