Re: USB 5.25 floppy drive

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <9f61cf69.0205180956.2cc4b1f8@posting.google.com>,
Simon Williams <ludditetech@mac.com> wrote:
 
> Is it theoretically possible build a 5.25" floppy drive that could be
> used on a newer Mac or PC? I would presume that the ready availability
> of USB 3.5" disk drives would indicate the technology is feasible...
> is it just that developing such a device would be unprofitable or is
> it actually beyond the reach of modern science???
 
5.25" floppy drives are nowadays considered obsolete and unprofitable
to manufacture, but of course it's pssobile to build such a drive;
nothing in science itself would prevent you from doing so.  And for a
newer PC it's actually quite simple to hook up a 5.25" drive: if you
can hook up a 3.5" drive to it, you can also hook up a 5.25" drive to
it, if you can find the physical space where to put the 5.25" drive
(tossing out the CD-ROM and inserting a 5.25" drive instead could be
an option... :-) and if the ROM BIOS of your computer supports 5.25"
drives (they're usually called "1.2M" or "360K" in the ROM BIOS).
 
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