On Apr 21, 2005, at 12:30 PM, Kirk Israel wrote:
>> Well, I did say *in use*. I bet if I rummaged a little I could look
>> at
>> one in just a couple minutes.
>
> Ah, sorry, good point.
>
>> Say, I don't suppose anyone on this list has a 5-1/4" floppy drive for
>> a PC that they'd be willing to unload for free or nearly so, do they?
>> I just rediscovered a pile of IBM PC 5-1/4" disks, and I have nothing
>> that can read them, since the only 5-1/4" drives I have are 1541s.
>> Disk
>> ][s, and Duodisks. And a Unidisk, but same problem. And a slightly
>> b0rked Atari 5-1/4" drive. But nothing PC-ish.
>>
> Where do you live?
>
> I have one in an mid-90s PC that's currently furniture. I could
> probably extract it for you and send it off, and we could settle on
> shipping.
>
I'm in St. Louis. I'd be happy to pay shipping. And yeah, pulling
them from equipment is pretty easy. Please do send the cable too,
though, because there's some weird card-edge connector for 5-14" drives
(IIRC; later ones might have just used the 34-pin floppy connector)
that I don't know if I still have.
Adam
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