Need access to 5.25" diskette drive - NYC

[frethoa]

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I have a number of old 5.25" diskettes, and would like to see what is
on them (and possibly copy some of the files to another medium). Is
there someone in the New York City 5 boroughs, with an IBM or
compatible PC equipped with a 5.25" drive, who would let me use their
equipment for an hour or two? I would be willing to pay for same
(within reason). Thanks! Best,

--Tom

 

[Gordon]

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To comp.sys.ibm.pc.classic, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage --

I have a number of old 5.25" diskettes, and would like to see what is
on them (and possibly copy some of the files to another medium). Is
there someone in the New York City 5 boroughs, with an IBM or
compatible PC equipped with a 5.25" drive, who would let me use their
equipment for an hour or two? I would be willing to pay for same
(within reason). Thanks! Best,

--Tom

Is there computer recycler in the area?? Lots of old equiptment
comes out of the closet and ends up at recylers.
If all else fails contact Free Geek in Portland, OR (cheap plug,
I work there) I see many systems come in for recycleing with
5.25" drives. If you ask nicely they may salvage one for you.

 

[Arno Wagner]

(e-mail address removed) wrote in @f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

Is there computer recycler in the area?? Lots of old equiptment
comes out of the closet and ends up at recylers.
If all else fails contact Free Geek in Portland, OR (cheap plug,
I work there) I see many systems come in for recycleing with
5.25" drives. If you ask nicely they may salvage one for you.

If you do, also ask for the cable. The mainboard side has remained
unchanged, but the floppy side does not have the PCB connector
it would needfor 5 1/4" floppies today. You mau also need to remove
the terminators in the 5 1/4" floppy. It used to be the case
that the WR line (and maybe some others) had pullup resistors that
required a 20mA capable driver on the other side. Some cheap chipsets
cannot deal with that today.

Arno

 

[Howard Rose]

To comp.sys.ibm.pc.classic, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage --

I have a number of old 5.25" diskettes, and would like to see what is
on them (and possibly copy some of the files to another medium). Is
there someone in the New York City 5 boroughs, with an IBM or
compatible PC equipped with a 5.25" drive, who would let me use their
equipment for an hour or two? I would be willing to pay for same
(within reason). Thanks! Best,

You can buy working 1.2MB drives on eBay cheaply. Most BIOS will
support 5.25" drives, although I've only been able to get HD drives to
work in Windows XP. As another poster has advised, the cable
connection is different, although you can get cables with both 3.5"
and 5.25" style connections.

I also had to set up my 1.2MB 5.25" drive as drive A: and my 1.44MB
3.5" as drive B: on the cable, but I swapped them around in the bios
so they appear as normal.
--
Howard Rose
www.howard81.co.uk
1966 Volkswagen 1300 Deluxe
1975 Volkswagen 1303S
1962 Austin Mini Seven

 

[Arno Wagner]

On 15 Nov 2006 13:48:19 -0800, (e-mail address removed) wrote:

You can buy working 1.2MB drives on eBay cheaply. Most BIOS will
support 5.25" drives, although I've only been able to get HD drives to
work in Windows XP.

Linux still supports DD 6.25" floppy drives.

As another poster has advised, the cable
connection is different, although you can get cables with both 3.5"
and 5.25" style connections.

That was the standard cable for some time.

I also had to set up my 1.2MB 5.25" drive as drive A: and my 1.44MB
3.5" as drive B: on the cable, but I swapped them around in the bios
so they appear as normal.

A ttransistional cable with only one 5 1/4" connector.

There must now be soemthing like 5 variants of these floppy cables.
All beacuse the designers wanted so save a few cents on the
original connectors....

Arno