22 Oct
2007
22 Oct
'07
3:14 p.m.
Gene Ehrich wrote:
I remember a discussion a long time ago but not much
of it.
Would there be anyway to hook up a 5-1/4" diskette drive to a modern
day computer running any version of Windows?
Have a number of things that I would love to convert to 3-1/2" or put
on CD.
The two machines that I have up and running are Windows 98 and Vista
Ultimate. I also have an older Thinkpad 500 running Windows 3.1
Jerome Fine replies:
I still have both a 5 1/4" floppy drive on a Pentium III under
W98SE as well as the 3 1/2" floppy drive.
The only time that I use the 5 1/4" floppy drive is when I run
Ersatz-11. Then the 5 1/4" drive is either an RX50 or an RX33.
The 3 1/2" floppy drive is used to boot DOS when I run GHOST
to perform a backup. When I run Ersatz-11, the 3 1/2" floppy
drive becomes an RX23.
I do intend to upgrade to WXP with a Pentium 4. From what I
read, the above use of both 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" floppy drives
may still be possible. Can anyone confirm?
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
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