From: drb at msu.edu (Dennis Boone)
Subject: [COFF] Speaking of floppy controllers,
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 18:06:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200309220633.52E62259C28@yagi.h-net.msu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: (Your message of Mon, 09 Mar 2020 15:18:48 -0600.) <cf55fce6-476e-1b6f-66c6-1fb1b5895bae@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>
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> Does anyone have any knee jerk reaction to the idea of putting a 5¼"
> floppy drive on a USB-to-Floppy (nominally 3½") adapter?
> Do I want to avoid tilting at this windmill?
The gadgets of this general ilk that *I* have encountered only really
work for accessing MS-DOS format floppies. If that's the scale of your
problem, and you have a compatible floppy drive, you probably stand a
chance.
If not, you probably need something akin to a Kryoflux.
De
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-09 21:18 gtaylor
2020-03-09 22:06 ` drb [this message]
2020-03-09 22:32 ` krewat
2020-03-09 22:49 ` gtaylor
2020-03-12 19:30 ` krewat
2020-03-09 23:49 ` imp
2020-03-18 20:03 ` gtaylor
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