On 06/03/2012 05:45 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Tom Gardner wrote:
I have just received several hundred 5?-inch FDDs
which I would like to copy
to modern media. They contain WordPerfect files
Does anyone know a low cost copying service? The best I have found so far
is about $5 per disk although I suspect I could negotiate a lower bulk rate.
In the alternative, can anyone recommend a USB 5?-inch reader? Device Side
Data's FC5025 USB 5.25" floppy controller (
http://www.deviceside.com/) looks
like a starting point towards a reader for about $100.
Before anybody gets into the cockamamie advice of catweasel V diskferret,
where are you?
Have machines with 5.25" drives become that difficult to find?
No, but 5.25" drives themselves have. I even got physically shoved
out of the way (AHEM, HI DAN) at a hamfest for a box of them just this
morning. ;)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA