[lug] Anyone still have a 5.25" floppy drive?

[BC]

I still have one up in the closet for reading up to 1.2mb size 
floppies.  Haven't used it in a LONG time.


On 7/13/2018 8:03 AM, Bear Giles wrote:
> I kept mine until a few years ago when I got rid of my last systems 
> that still had the controller (and connection). But maybe someone 
> still has some drives around. (I can still read 3.5" floppies and 
> 100 MB zip disks because I have USB-enabled ones.)
>
> I was digging through my clutter backlog and came across the 
> floppies for MS-DOS 5. I remember holding onto them since many 
> embedded systems were still using it. I don't know if that's still 
> the case since Arduinos and Raspberry Pis are so much more capable. 
> I don't even know if I can run it in a virtual machine.
>
> Maybe office art...
>
> I also found Windows 2.1 floppies and the jewel case for Windows 95. 
> I think I already tossed the disc.
>
> Bear

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