2 Dec
2008
2 Dec
'08
6:46 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
Similarly, if the 5110 is in good working order, you
could install a
1.2M 5.25" drive on it, copy the files, and then extract them at your
leisure
Possible, but slightly less easy that it sounds. IIRC, the 8-inch
floppy drives used in the 5114 disk drives for the 5110 (and built into
the 5120) are IBM 53FD drives, which do not have the same electrical
interface as the industry-standard drives pioneered by Shugart.