I assume these are HD ones (1.44MByte for a silly
definition of
megabyte). What about DD ones (720K on a PC?). I have exactly one machine
that used HD 3.5" dissk and many that use the DD type. I am finding them
hard to obtain now...
Tony, I suffer from the same problem (as an example, the HP 16500 Logic
Analyzer mainframe) but I think that at this stage, it is better to use a
floppy emulator (there are a pair of good free projects on the net) than use
diskettes IF you have PROFESSIONAL USE of your equipment.
I don;'t use any of my machines professionally (I wish I did...), but I
do use them. And being classics I want to keep them as original as possible.
I've yet to see a floppy disk emulator that I care for. They;'re either
undocuemtned ready-built modules (which probably won't work with a 1Mbps
600 rpm disk drice controller), or they seem to require a modern PC. The
workaround for about 50% of my machines (which I am giving serious
thought to) is to design an SS/80 SD-card 'drive'
-tony