Completely off topic to the original question, but something I need for
my YouTube channel and project: Does anyone know how to buy actual
floppy disks? I'm talking about 5.25" floppy disks here, not the 3.5".
I need double density, but my Apple //e probably won't complain if I
feed it high density floppies instead.
Thanks,
Shachar
On 22/12/2021 21:27, Omer Zak wrote:
I have a friend who has a PC, which got stuck in the late 1990's. This
Ethernet-less and Internet-less PC has old (circa 1997) RedHat Linux
installed on it and it uses floppy disks (diskettes) for backups.
Now the floppy disk drive seems to have gone out of order and my friend
will need to read his diskettes in a modern PC as well as transfer to
it the contents of his hard disk (presumably connected via IDE or
whatever was available in the antediluvian period before the Big Dotcom
Crash of 2000.
1. Are there any floppy disk drives with USB connection for reading
those diskettes?
2. If one needs to temporarily connect an old hard disk (not having a
modern SATA interface) to a modern PC, what solutions are there?
Thanks!
--- Omer Zak
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