There was a time when the first place I would look for an 8" floppy drive would have been your parents' basement. I miss talking about electronics and computers with your father.
I don't know if/when/where/how DoD runs surplus property sales, but if they do, that's where I'd look: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/25/20931800/usa-nuclear-8-inch-floppy-disk-solid-state-transition Moshe -- Moshe Katz mmk...@umd.edu (301) 867-3732 On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 7:48 PM Judah Milgram <milg...@cgpp.com> wrote: > If you can find a 5.25" USB floppy drive let me know - I want one! I > never did find one. > > But I might be able to help you out with an actual drive. You'll need an > old CPU with an FD drive and the appropriate cable. I've been migrating > my data too and find that I have a low rate of success with the 5.25" > floppies. But it's still better than nothing. > > Contact me offline. > > FWIW I have a 3.5" USB floppy drive and it works surprisingly well. > Pretty inexpensive too. > > My data migration project makes me soooo happy that floppies are a thing > of the past. > > Related to this: I inherited about a dozen 8" floppies apparently with > data. Anyone out there have a drive? > > Judah > > > On 10/25/19 5:39 PM, Peter Teuben wrote: > > you can get USB floppy drives, i've had a friend 1 or 2 years ago come > > to me solving their old data problem. worked just fine. > > > > On 10/25/19 11:35 PM, Howard Sanner wrote: > >> Is this thing still on? > >> > >> Does anyone know where I might get a working 5.25" floppy drive, > >> preferably a 1.2 MB drive? > >> > >> I am trying to help a friend migrate a database that it took him many > >> years to create to more modern media. I suspect there are data > >> conversion services that can do this, but, at least for the moment, > >> we're going to try the do it yourself route. Re-creating the database > >> from source documents would be impractical to impossible, even if my > >> friend's health permitted trying, which it does not. > >> > >> Thanks for any ideas you may have. > >> > >> Howard Sanner > >> linux-au...@terrier.ampexguy.com > >> > >> You received this email because you are subscribed to the UM Linux > >> User's Group (UM-LINUX) mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe > >> from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.umd.edu with > >> the message signoff UM-LINUX in the body. > > > > You received this email because you are subscribed to the UM Linux > > User's Group (UM-LINUX) mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe > > from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.umd.edu with > > the message signoff UM-LINUX in the body. > > > -- > Judah Milgram > milg...@cgpp.com > 301-257-7069 > > You received this email because you are subscribed to the UM Linux User's > Group (UM-LINUX) mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe from this > list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.umd.edu with the message > signoff UM-LINUX in the body. > You received this email because you are subscribed to the UM Linux User's Group (UM-LINUX) mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.umd.edu with the message signoff UM-LINUX in the body.
