11 Mar
2022
11 Mar
'22
7:03 p.m.
On 3/11/22 18:32, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
There are no 5.25" USB floppies. Well, not 100%
true (there are
values in the identifier strings that tell you it's a 1.2MB floppy vs
a 1.44MB floppy), but as a practical matter, you can't find them.
I've looked and gave up... That's how I wound up with my kyroflux +
TEAC drive (though a greaseweasel is a better choice these days)...
Not completely true--in the old USB 1.0 days, there were a very few
USB-to-floppy bridges that could talk 5.25' 250Kbit/sec-speak. SMC had
one such and I suspect that multi-chip implementations were also available.
But given that few new people understand anything that's not Windows, it
would be a futile effort, I suspect.
All the best,
Chuck