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

[BC]

On 7/13/2018 8:20 AM, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 08:03:44 -0600
> Bear Giles wrote:
>
>> 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.
> I have FreeDOS running in a VirtualBox. Why? Because I can. I know a guy
> who keeps an old DOS instance running for nostalgic gaming, and I think
> it's a physical machine. Other than that, I can't think of a use for one.
>
> But I long ago tossed out all the floppy stuff. I might have a controller
> cable around somewhere.

I have VMs for MSDOS v6.22, Win95b, Win98SE, Win7 and Win10. Haven't 
looked at the first three in many years.

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