5 1/4 floppies on laptop

From: SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com <(SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com)>
Date: Mon Sep 13 22:23:28 1999

In a message dated 9/13/99 11:17:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
mikeford_at_socal.rr.com writes:

> >
> > I would like to run 5 1/4 floppies on an older laptop. Can anyone
> >recommend a laptop that had this size drive? Or which older laptops had
> >ports for 5 1/4 external floppie drives? sring_at_uslink.net
> >
> >
> >
>
> IBM 5140?
Unfortunately, the 5140 (convertible) doesnt support 5.25 drives unless
someone's hacked one on. Now, if you had a 5155 you could have one 3.5 and
one 5.25 as long as you run dos 3.3 or higher.

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