5.25" Floppy Drive for a Modern Computer?

[seberino at spawar.navy.mil]

Dump all floppies and put stuff on a USB stick.

CS

On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 06:35:26PM -0700, Gary Kellison wrote:
> I have a bunch of old 5.25 floppies.  Some of it is old data that I hadn't
> bothered to transfer to 3.5" floppies, and some is really ancient stuff that
> might be considered antique, like old DOS games and Microsoft Pascal
> 4.0  (Is there such a thing as antique software?)
>
> The problem is that would like to get rid of my old self-assembled 486 and
> use a three-year old Dell as my designated "spare".   The main reason for the
> keeping the Dell instead of the old 486 is that the Dell dual-boots with Suse
> 9.1 and the 486 is stuck with Windows 95.  -- So now this post is technically
> topical in a Linux forum  :)
>
> Although the Dell has a spare 5.25 drive bay; its BIOS doesn't appear to
> support anything but the 3.5" variety of floppy, and its cabling is
> completely different than the 486 (everything is intergrated onto the Dell's
> motherboard).
>
> I can find USB external 3.5" floppy drives but not the 5.25" kind.  Has
> anybody seen such a thing or perhaps an external USB carriage that can accept
> the 5.25 floppy drive off of my old 486?
>
> Or do I spend an afternoon copying 5.25" floppies down to 3.5" floppies on the
> old 486?
>
> Gary Kellison
>
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