The greaseweazel supports 8”, 5.25”, and 3.5” devices. The HW is inexpensive, but the floppy drive might be expensive, depending on what you are looking for. This is a USB device and I have an older revision.
From the Canadian website that sells a fully built device for $34: Keir Fraser’s Greaseweazle is a project for versatile floppy drive control over USB. By extracting the raw flux transitions from a drive, any diskette format can be captured and analyzed - PC, Amiga, Amstrad, PDP-11, many older electronic musical instruments, and industrial equipment. The Greaseweazle also supports writing to floppy disks. The design is fully open and comes with no license encumberment. https://decromancer.ca/greaseweazle/ Cheers, Scott -- Scott Murphy scott.mur...@arrow-eye.com > On Jan 17, 2024, at 19:14, Rick Leir <rl...@leirtech.com> wrote: > > What about my 8" floppy disk, unused since it was in a pdp11, in 1978 approx. > LOL > > > On January 17, 2024 3:22:06 PM EST, "Ian E. Gorman" <iegor...@gmail.com> > wrote: > 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 <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 > <mailto: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 > <mailto:linux%2bunsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org> > To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org > <mailto:linux%2bh...@linux-ottawa.org> > To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org > <https://lists.linux-ottawa.org/> > > > > -- > Sorry for being brief. Alternate email is rickleir at gmail dot com
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