10 Dec
2003
10 Dec
'03
4:26 a.m.
> Question for gurus: Someone knows (or adapted it
for
> yourself) of one 5.25 floppy drive connected with some kind
> of USB cable or controller ? I want to do image disks of almost
> 2000 diskettes I have, and I should like to use my laptop to do it.
On Wed, 10
Dec 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
I'm sure one can be built, but I've seen
drives like these before (but for
the Macintosh).
There are PC laptops with no floppy, that use external USB floppies.
Q: do those have, inside them, an "industry standard" (SA400) drive?
If so, then cabling to a 1.2M or 360K drive should be trivial.
HOWEVER, it seems unlikely that it will support the 300K data transfer
rate, so reading 360K disks in a 1.2M drive will require switching drives
to a 360K, or some kludges on a "dual speed" drive.