I googled "5.25 floppy drive" and got several drives. But they are bare drives and you would have to make sure you got a 1.2 MB drive, which can also read 360K.
You would still have to find a 20th Century PC and a flat cable and install an older linux. Or you could try to find an NEC u765 floppy controller chip with documentation and try to run the chip from an Arduino. You don't need to read an MS-DOS file system on the floppy, you can copy the raw disk to a linux file and mount the file as an MS-DOS file system. A hell of a lot of work to read a few floppies. I did see a ready-to-go USB 5.24. floppy system that mounted as a USB mass storage device but that was at least 10 years ago. Ian G. On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 1:29 PM Nash JC - NCF <nas...@ncf.ca> 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. > > I have a curiosity interest, but only one or two old disks that I don't > need > to read. > > JN > > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org > To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org > To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org > > -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Ian Earl Gorman | //www.gorman.ca/ | //web.ncf.ca/iegorman/ //github.com/iegorman/ | //www.linkedin.com/in/iegorman/
