[Tfug] USB Floppy

Bexley Hall bexley401 at yahoo.com
Sun Dec 6 23:59:11 MST 2009


Hi Zack,

> >> But, it occurs to me that I *should* (?) be able to
> >> bastardize a 3" USB floppy to hack together a 5"
> >> floppy.  I.e., gut an external CDROM case; install
> >> the 5" floppy with the smarts from the 3" USB
> >> floppy and I *should* be able to read and write
> >> 5" media (?).
> 
> Lots of speculation, but no straight "I did it, it works":
> 
> http://fixunix.com/cp-m/662-yee-haa-5-25-inch-usb-floppy.html

And, I suspect, if there *was* such a proclamation, it would
just be "I was able to create an MS-DOS formatted floppy"
(though I doubt they would even *think* to condition their
claim thusly!  :< )


      




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