You can get hardware to use with a bare floppy drive. I don't know how good the hardware is.
https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle The software is free. The is a link to vendors of the hardware. Total cost of a setup might be around $300 Canadian. 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/
