Working 8" Floppy drives??? (from originator)

From: Kevin Handy <kth_at_srv.net>
Date: Fri May 9 14:35:00 2003

Nick Garnett wrote:

>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Thank you for your replies! From today's digest, they are:
>
> ?. Re: Working 8" Floppy drives??? (Fred Cisin,
> from an earlier digest)
> 2. Re: Working 8" Floppy drives??? (Ethan Dicks)
> 4. Re: Working 8" Floppy drives??? (Jochen Kunz)
> 7. Re: Working 8" Floppy drives??? (Peter Turnbull)
> 11. Re: Working 8" Floppy drives??? (Tony Duell)
> 12. Re: Working 8" Floppy drives??? (Tony Duell)
>
>Including all of these messages in my reply would be a
>misuse of bandwidth. Please see the original text of the
>replies.
>
>? Re: Working 8" Floppy drives??? (Fred Cisin)
> from yesterday's digest?
>
> Fred asks if we have considered substituting 1.2M 5.25"
> drives. Hmmmm. I didn't know there were such drives.
> I know of DSDD 360K 5.25 drives and 1.44M 3.5 drives,
> even 720K 5.25 drives, but not 1.2M 5.25 drives.
>

1.2M drives are/were very common. I have a 286 that has the option
to specify a 1.2M 5.25" in the bios, so they go back fairly far.
Most PC's > 286 came with 1.2M instead of the 360K, when
they were shipped with 5.25" drives.

> On the general subject of using a substitute drive. I
> have actually been considering if this could be done. I
> have not suggested doing that because I need to find out
> the feasibility. I would hope we could at least get into
> the 1990s with a 1.44M 3.5 in floppy drive.
Received on Fri May 09 2003 - 14:35:00 BST