[TVARC] 3.5 inch floppy drive

[Larry Sheridan]

Hi Cal:

I didn't do much of anything with CPM so wouldn't have any of that OS.
Furthest back I did was 1978 using PL/I on
U of Mich mainframe via dialup on a LA36 DecWriter at 300 baud, thought we
were really living it up when 1200 came
along.  Storage in Ann Arbor was on 9-track 10" tapes at 1,650
bits-per-inch, then moved up to 6,250 BPI later.  Had a
tape copy of all my PL/I stuff for many years, that finally got discarded
in one of our moves.

I can set you up with a clean full install of MS-DOS 5.0 off the original
360K 5-1/4" installation floppys if that helps (!).
Might still have IBM DOS 3.3 and pretty sure I have a copy of latest last
updated MS-DOS 6.22 on a 3.5".

Tried Red Hat LINUX awhile back, got it up & running but was stymied when I
couldn't find a driver for the internal
modem to get the final packages & updates.  Looking at maybe trying LINUX
again on a clean 17" HP laptop that
runs Win10 great but is 1 generation too old to take Win 11 update, need
recommendation on best package to use.

I have some other 1/4" streaming backup tape drives & tapes, that piggyback
on the floppy controller, but would have
to search for the drivers to get them up & running.  Same with the 100 &
250 ZIP drives & cartridges although I may
have one of the 250 Zips with USB cable.

Got rid of a lot of stuff 4 years ago leaving WY and still brought too
much, HI.

Larry Sheridan  K8XR
307-630-5697







On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM Cal Fuhrman <calfuhrman7 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow, Larry!  You need to open a museum.  Do you have any copies of CPM OS
> buried among all those other goodies?
>
> 😃
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM Larry Sheridan <larry10782 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Tim:
>>
>> Pretty sure that I've got a 3.5" floppy, dual-drive data cable and
>> dual-drive power cable here for you, you didn't specify
>> 720K or 1.44M but may have both in a box.
>>
>> IIRC, also have a couple 5-1/4" floppy drives in 360K & 1.2M sizes with
>> cables, too.
>>
>> I do have a tower PC available with all 4 floppy drive sizes in it, that
>> can run any 2 floppys at a time, specifically for
>> reading old floppy disks to a hard drive for data recovery if anyone has
>> a need for that, an oldie but a goodie keeper.
>>
>> I'd have to look but might also still have a copy of the program COCO2PC
>> which will read floppy disks from the
>> Radio Shack CoCo Color Computer disk format to the standard PC floppy
>> format.
>>
>> Larry Sheridan  K8XR
>> 307-630-5697
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM Tim Leonard <tfleonard at pacbell.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone have a 3.5 inch floppy drive they would like to get rid of?
>>> I am looking for the PC/AT version to use with an old Intel Pentium
>>> motherboard.
>>> I also need the floppy disk ribbon cable.
>>>
>>> Tim
>>> AA6DQ
>>> .
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