[Noisebridge-discuss] 5.25" floppy drive needed

Sat Apr 23 22:04:40 UTC 2011

On 04/23/2011 02:13 PM, Zach . wrote:
> I second the need for this.  Especially a USB one.  
> Apparently when downgrading Vista to XP (like I did for someones laptop last week) 
> you need to embed SATA drivers into XP and the best way to do this is with a floppy drive.

You may be confused.
VonGuard is looking for a drive that will accept media that looks like this:
http://www.ivanexpert.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/525_floppy-300x300.gif

rather than media that looks like this:
http://www.pcwizkid.co.uk/images/floppy.jpg

The last 5.25" drive that I saw was in my (Y2K compliant) Tandy 1000TL, which is currently sitting in a landfill in 'Bama. :(

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