The greaseweazel supports 8”, 5.25”, and 3.5” devices.
The HW is inexpensive, but the floppy drive might be expensive, depending on
what you are looking for. This is a USB device and I have an older revision.
From the Canadian website that sells a fully built device for $34:
Keir Fraser’s Greas
What about my 8" floppy disk, unused since it was in a pdp11, in 1978 approx.
LOL
On January 17, 2024 3:22:06 PM EST, "Ian E. Gorman" wrote:
>You can get hardware to use with a bare floppy drive. I don't know how
>good the hardware is.
>
>https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle
>
>The software is
You can get hardware to use with a bare floppy drive. I don't know how
good the hardware is.
https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle
The software is free. The is a link to vendors of the hardware.
Total cost of a setup might be around $300 Canadian.
Ian G.
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 1:29 PM Nash
I googled "5.25 floppy drive" and got several drives.
But they are bare drives and you would have to make sure you got a 1.2 MB
drive, which can also read 360K.
You would still have to find a 20th Century PC and a flat cable and install
an older linux.
Or you could try to find an NEC u765 floppy
