[dba-Tech] How to get data of 16 year old 5 1/4 inch floppy

Arthur Fuller fuller.artful at gmail.com
Mon Aug 19 04:39:09 CDT 2013


Maybe there's a niche market for USB-connected 5.25 and 3.5 inch drives? I
guess they would need their own power supply, But I can see that copy shops
such as Kinko's could offer this as a service. Just a thought.

Arthur


On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 3:41 AM, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:

> Hi Mark
>
> It is a).
>
> All Pentium-level machines have a floppy interface, so you would need just
> a
> drive and cable. Power connector is the same as that for old harddisks like
> (parallel) ATA.
>
> /gustav


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