I definitely do. I rebuilt a Trace ST8000 last year and got it up and running. I also built a 5.25" duplicator with 12 drives a few months back. I'd love to find a commercial 5.25" duplicator. Travis On Sat, Mar 9, 2024 at 2:55 PM Bill Degnan via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:

Oh yes. Back in the late 80's, I delivered some 13-14 autoloader-equipped media conversion systems to norwegian, finnish and danish customers. The problem they solved, was that the customers customers had a variety of floppy disc formats, like Norsk Data, IBM, CP/M, IBM 3740 (which itself had varying densities and single/double side), and many others. These discs had to be read and/or written, but checking how each disc had to be handled, was cumbersome and error-prone. Based on a request from BBS in Norway, I developped a conversion system based on "InterMedia for Windows", Trace / Mountain 3.5" 5.25" and 8" autoloaders, and Intermec hardware. Barcodes were glued to the media, which could then be read by a barcode scanner mpunted inside the autoloaders. This barcode could be a customer-id, a filename, a project name, or whatever. Some also had a reference to the formatname in InterMedia The last customer, a Employers Union, stopped handling floppies in 2007. To give an example of the transactions handled by 1 customer (although with 3 conversions systems) : if the system was dead for 1 full day, the interest they lost on the transactions, would buy them a , new manual conversion system, about 130.000 dkk (£15.000 or so) In its most busy period, all transactions on magnetic media, delivered to the bank, would go through my systems, apart from IBM 3480-3490 cassettes. All the best Nico On 2024-03-09 22:55, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: