Re: Are Floppy Drives A Necessity On Laptops?
- From: Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:47:11 GMT
I am seriously looking for a USB 5.25" floppy drive. Have not found one yet, and have even toyed with trying to build my own (single chip USB to floppy controllers are made by several firms).
Attention manufacturers: There is some demand .... not huge, but I think "enough" ..... for a USB 5.25" floppy drive, or a USB to floppy controller (no drive, but a 34-pin floppy interface connector). In fact, I have use for a USB EIGHT-INCH floppy drive, but I won't even suggest that there is a commercial level of demand for that. [However a "USB to Floppy Interface" could accomodate that, since the 8-inch interface is still very similar to the 5.25" and 3.5" interface, primarily using just a different connector, although there are 2 or 3 relatively minor signal differences.]
[Note, don't suggest taking apart a USB 3.5" drive and connecting a 5.25" drive, as virtually all USB 3.5" drives (every one of the dozens I've taken apart) are integrated USB drives rather than a USB to floppy converter and a standard 34-pin floppy interface.]
Peter T. Breuer wrote:
leaveme@xxxxxxxx wrote:
I agree. I just bought a laptop without a floppy drive and I can live
without one. But could somebody please tell me, how to install an
expensive old program that are on 3 floppies? Batchrun would not do
it....
Copy the floppies to your computer from somewhere else (which has a floppy) via ethernet. Run the code on them. Perform such fixups as they may require (drive renaming, in windows?).
Now, how do you install from five-inch floppies?
Peter
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