[Dorset] Borrow a floppy disk drive

2014-07-29 Thread Tim Waugh
Hello! Does anyone have a floppy disk drive I could borrow? I finally get around to investigating some old floppy disks of mine only to realise it must have been years ago that I got rid of the last disk drive I had! Thanks, Tim. */ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [Dorset] Borrow a floppy disk drive

2014-07-29 Thread Victor Churchill
I have a couple of internal units and an external that connects to a laptop PCMCIA slot! How many do you need ... we have probably got enough to make a Star Wars orchestra :) -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-08-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ...

Re: [Dorset] Borrow a floppy disk drive

2014-07-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim, Chad wrote: I have a old usb one you can borrow. If you have non-DOS-format floppies then USB probably won't be any good. In their wisdom, they made the USB interface only support normal DOS formats; no 1024-byte sectors, 10 sectors per track of ADFS, for example. Cheers, Ralph. --

Re: [Dorset] Borrow a floppy disk drive

2014-07-29 Thread TimA
Hi Tim On 29/07/14 13:19, Tim Waugh wrote: Hello! Does anyone have a floppy disk drive I could borrow? I finally get around to investigating some old floppy disks of mine only to realise it must have been years ago that I got rid of the last disk drive I had! Just to add to the offers, I

Re: [Dorset] Borrow a floppy disk drive

2014-07-29 Thread Paul Stenning
I think I have an internal 3.5 1.44MB one here (Bournemouth). I'll need to check to be certain but if that's what you want you are welcome to it as I have no further use for it. I should have a ribbon cable for it too. On 29/07/2014 15:23, TimA wrote: Hi Tim On 29/07/14 13:19, Tim Waugh

Re: [Dorset] Borrow a floppy disk drive

2014-07-29 Thread Charles Miller
I have an external floppy drive, 1.44Mb size that you can borrow. If you live near Wareham you could pick it up, or let me know if you still need it and I will bring to the next LUG meet. Charles Miller -Original Message- From: dorset-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2014-07-29 Thread Terry Coles
Hi All, The next Meeting is exactly one week tonight; 8 pm at The Broadway on Tuesday 2014-08-05. See http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway. See you there! -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-08-05 20:00

Re: [Dorset] Borrow a floppy disk drive

2014-07-29 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, 2014-07-29 at 15:37 +0100, Paul Stenning wrote: I think I have an internal 3.5 1.44MB one here (Bournemouth). I'll need to check to be certain but if that's what you want you are welcome to it as I have no further use for it. I should have a ribbon cable for it too. Thanks for

Re: [Dorset] Borrow a floppy disk drive

2014-07-29 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, 2014-07-29 at 15:23 +0100, TimA wrote: Just to add to the offers, I have an internal 5.25 if that's what you're after. I never even thought to specify, but it's 3.5 that I need. Wow, does the 5.25 one still work? Tim. */ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [Dorset] Borrow a floppy disk drive

2014-07-29 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, 2014-07-29 at 15:18 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: If you have non-DOS-format floppies then USB probably won't be any good. In their wisdom, they made the USB interface only support normal DOS formats; no 1024-byte sectors, 10 sectors per track of ADFS, for example. One of them is

Re: [Dorset] Borrow a floppy disk drive

2014-07-29 Thread Andrew
On 29/07/14 22:09, Tim Waugh wrote: On Tue, 2014-07-29 at 15:18 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: If you have non-DOS-format floppies then USB probably won't be any good. In their wisdom, they made the USB interface only support normal DOS formats; no 1024-byte sectors, 10 sectors per track of