5-1/4' drive on modern PC

Hi Yes and No. Of course, one can make some hardware to handle the drive and connect it to anything. There are 3-1/2 inch drives for the USB. It might be that the software would see a 5-1/4 drive as it is through one of these interfaces. Remove the 3-1/2 and wire it to the 5-1/4. For the parallel, I have some hardware someplace that can connect an IDE drive to the parallel port. I don't think I've seen anything for a floppy. Although, I've seen tape drives that connect to the parallel port. These normally connect to a floppy port. One might be able to do something with one of these interfaces. One of the catalogs that I've seen recently had a USB experimenters kit. One could most likely use one of these with a PIC and a controller chip to interface to just about any drive. Does anyone recall if the ZIP drives were on the floppy ports? If so, one could take a parallel ZIP dive and remove the drive part to connect a floppy drive. One still needs to create some software. It is still just a problem of hardware and software. A better idea might be to locate an older machine at one of the second hand stores and use that. Dwight