[Ham-Computers] Question about 5.25" drives.

KD7JYK DM09 kd7jyk at earthlink.net
Mon Oct 23 20:29:57 EDT 2017


I've recently acquired four new-old-stock 3.5" floppy drives intended 
for laptops, but so far, they work with all computers with a USB port as 
an external "floppy" drive.

What I'm looking for, since I've had to upgrade from a computer that had 
an internal 5.25" drive, is an EXTERNAL 5.25" drive with USB 
connectivity.  Were these ever available, or did the technologies not 
overlap?  Anything out there that works, perhaps a case that I can put 
my 5.25" floppy drive into, then connect it to my laptop?  I don't mind 
putting something together if I can find a nice high-quality case that 
will take an IDE floppy drive and convert to USB.

Ideas?

Kurt


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