Re: [OT] FC5025 USB 5.25" Floppy Controller Message #6 Posted by Gerry Schultz on 14 July 2010, 9:14 p.m., in response to message #3 by Dave Shaffer (Arizona)
Dave:
'I'll make standing offer: I DO HAVE a PC with a functioning 5.25 drive and will be happy to take a look at any such disks sent to me.'
Thanks for the offer Dave, but in my case, the P4 machine I have only supports 3.5" drives and the new Intel i7 machine I just built (using an Asus P6X58D MB) doesn't support floppy drives. What I especially like about the FC5025 is that it supports several floppy formats and since I still belong to an Apple II user group (for 25 years) and we meet monthly. Being able to read old Apple II floppies is important to me. And, no, I don't have any Apple II hardware anymore. My wife was ready to kill me with all the computers I had so the old Apple IIGS (fully loaded) had to be sold. Also, a fellow member owns an HP-15C and we chat about HP calculators regularly.
I do have an IBM 486 machine that still works, it runs Win95, but IBM uses an custom I/F (power in the connector) for the 3.5" drive so I can't daisy-chain in a standard 5 1/4" drive. I do have several 3.5"/5.25" floppy combo drives that work, just not a functioning machine to control them.
Gerry
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