> 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.

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