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External 5.25" Floppy Drives?
R2.0 writes "Are there any external 5.25" FD's out there? My wife
and I have a number of old 5.25" floppies with all sorts of
interesting stuff from school - she had a Kaypro, and Lehigh had just
gotten hundreds of Zenith PC's. In the interest of archival record
keeping (Ok, I'm a packrat), I'd like to get this stuff off the old
floppies and onto my HD, and then maybe onto CD-R. Problem: I'm out
of 5.25" bays in my Dell, so I can't just put in one of those handy
combo 3.5"/5.25" drives. And I can't just pop the CD player out,
pop in an old drive, and do everything in one batch - I need to be
able to do this a couple of disks at a time, between changing
diapers, etc. Can anyone suggest an external solution to my
problem? Parallel, serial, or USB; homebrewed or purchased." Ah,
the endless problem of preserving data from old media. Due to the lack
of use that 5.25" drives have had in the past 10 years, this might be
a very hard-to-find item. Is anyone making 5.25" drives anymore?
Read the entire statement concerning the combo unit, I qualify it by saying it will only work if Dell mounted a 3.5 in a 5.25. Ahhhhh I have to call hypocrite on you for not reading my full response.