Re: External 5.25 inch floppy drive

From: philo (philo_at_privacy.net)
Date: 12/19/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:12:14 -0600

Derek wrote:
> Anyone know if there are any external 5.25 inch floppy drives
> available or what would be involved in creating one?
>
> I know someone who has just rediscovered a stack of old 5.25 inch,
> 1.2MB floppies with private information on them, and who now wants to
> get to the data before the floppies all go bad.
>
> But it's now a laptop-only household, so installing a 5.25 inch drive
> isn't an option.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>

there are no external 5.25" drives avail that i have ever heard of...
and though it *might* be possible to modify an external 3.5" version...
considering the price is $60 - $100
you;d be way better off going to a 2nd hand store and buying on old 486
for $15 and checking the old floppies on that...
it's not too likely there's anything valuable on them anyway
but who knows

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