Michael J. Mahon wrote:
Maybe someone will start offering a FD-55, modified to handle "flippy" disks, in a case with a power supply and the FC5025, ready to connect to a USB port!
Don't know about the "flippy" diskette mod, but an older (mid-90s) vintage external CD-ROM case is just perfect for holding and powering the drive. I cannibalized an Apple CD300i SCSI external unit yesterday. Unfortunately, this chassis did not have room inside for the PCB, so I removed the 50-pin "Centronics" style connectors and ran the 34-pin ribbon cable out one of the mounting holes. Used a pair of Panduit nylon panel anchors and small tie-wraps to hold the board on the top (if you unclip the little mount brackets, you'll have a pair of holes at each end at the perfect spacing for this!)
Looks reasonably neat and took about 15-minutes to whip up.Getting all the software working under Linux is currently a bit of a challenge, but eventually I got everything cooperating.
Steve