Wow! That would be wonderful. Only place I have space for either P4, both 
full-size Micron Millenia towers, is on the top shelf of an old 6'6" 
server-rack "desk" with a KVM switch. Which is my video studeo/workstation with 
a camera track et al. It has room for four computers, but I have doubts about 
lifting the P4 over my head. So haven't been in a hurry.

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> On Jul 17, 2026, at 5:39 AM, Brian K. White <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Josh did you try this?
> 
> I was holding off sending Greg that manual because I have a 720k drive and 
> disks but just didn't have a pc handy to drive the drive. (I was using the 
> drive with a FluxEngine) But I do have some machines in storage that should 
> work, unless they're all dead from bad caps by now, so I figured I might as 
> well see if I can make the disks and toss them in since I probably have 
> everything needed.
> 
> 
>> On 7/13/26 10:15, Josh Malone wrote:
>> I can probably write these with my greaseweazle - `gw convert` seems to 
>> recognize them as MFM sectors. I don't have a drive to test on and (of 
>> course, LOL) I gave away a lot of my 3.5" DD stash over the weekend but I 
>> can write disks and mail them at cost if you want to take the chance. Mail 
>> me directly if you want to go this route.
>> -Josh
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 6:20 AM Greg Swallow <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>    Got it. Thank you.
>>    I have a couple of P4, made for XP era, computers that have 3.5"
>>    1.44 floppy drives. I have gotten them to work as blutooth Disk+
>>    host, but that kind got pushed to the back-burner after the ROMBank
>>    failed. If that doesn't fly then maybe I can use it as an excuse to
>>    pickup a functioning IBM Model 30 PS/2 that has recently appeared on
>>    Craig's List here. I've had pretty good luck with old Matsushita
>>    1.44 drives working where ever I put them. Even have a couple in my
>>    DVI. Now that's a thought... maybe I could read/write TPDD and
>>    Chipmunk diskettes in my DVI?
>>    Greg’s <><
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>>     > On Jul 12, 2026, at 11:54 PM, Brian K. White <[email protected]
>>    <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>     >
>>     > Correction 720k / DD  3.5" drive.
> 
> 
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