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Hello, and thanks for reading this already!

 

I know this sounds crazy :P

While working with some old equipment on school today, we worked with Floppy disks.

 

I love them.

I need them.

 

So is there a 5.25" floppy disk reader? Does that even exist? :P

 

Thanks in advance!

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Yeah? Of course they exist, how else were people able to use floppy disks?

I still have 2 or 3 here :P Stores don't really sell them anymore, but maybe you can go to a flea market or 2nd hand goodwill like store and find one in an old PC?

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Finding a drive should not be a problem.  Connecting it to your system will probably require an IDE to SATA connector.

 

Finding functional disks is going to be your biggest problem.

 

Did they show you 3.5" drives as well? 

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Finding a drive should not be a problem.  Connecting it to your system will probably require an IDE to SATA connector.

 

Finding functional disks is going to be your biggest problem.

 

Did they show you 3.5" drives as well? 

I only know that they were Floppy Disks :P

They were quite small though, the reader only used half a 5.25" bay.

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@Damikiller37, @LosthawkX, @LiamApex, @Minibois, @ThomasD.

I've found a store that sells USB Floppy readers and Floppy disks. Can I somehow put the USB thing in the 5.25" without it looking atrocious? :P

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@Damikiller37, @LosthawkX, @LiamApex, @Minibois, @ThomasD.

I've found a store that sells USB Floppy readers and Floppy disks. Can I somehow put the USB thing in the 5.25" without it looking atrocious? :P

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This will require a bit of DIY but grab something like THIS then get some acrylic such as THIS; cut it to shape and mount it somehow. If you don't like the shiny surface on the acrylic do THIS.

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This will require a bit of DIY but grab something like THIS then get some acrylic such as THIS; cut it to shape and mount it somehow. If you don't like the shiny surface on the acrylic do THIS.

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i still have windows 95 on all 13 floppys lol

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Just wondering what is the use of this?

 

I'll leave this here:

 

i still have windows 95 on all 13 floppys lol

CD's are for mainstream people!

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I only know that they were Floppy Disks :P

They were quite small though, the reader only used half a 5.25" bay.

Were the disks little rigid plastic cases, with a sliding metallic cover protecting the internals?  If so then they were 3.5" floppies.

 

Which are much, much better than 5.25" ones (there were even 8" ones way back in the 1970s.) Some 3.5" disks could actually hold over one megabyte of data!

 

So yeah, one disk won't even hold one photo from a decent digital SLR camera...

 

Just an FYI:  The computers I used in high school ran off of two 5.25" floppies (no hard drive at all.)  One drive had the disk with the operating system and the other drive held your data.

 

And the first computer I bought out of college had a hard drive with less capacity than one stick of the RAM in my five year old home system (4 x 2GB.)  

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Were the disks little rigid plastic cases, with a sliding metallic cover protecting the internals?  If so then they were 3.5" floppies.

I think they were 3.25" floppies than :P

 

Oh, also an FYI: 5.25" refers too the expansion bays in the computers, not the floppy size :P

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I think they were 3.25" floppies than :P

 

Oh, also an FYI: 5.25" refers too the expansion bays in the computers, not the floppy size :P

3.5", not 3.25"

 

And 5.25" bays got their name from the size of the floppies, not the other way around.  The actual width of the bay is closer to 5.7 inches.

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Got a USB 3.5" FDD myself from a recyclers. Upto 1.44mb of data, kinda hard to put much on there nowadays.

The 3.5s are much better than the 5.25s or the 8s, although there is something cool about the flexibility of the 5.25s and 8s.

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"Approimentley"? Is that a reference I'm not getting, or just someone didn't proof read?

 

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Hello, and thanks for reading this already!

 

I know this sounds crazy :P

While working with some old equipment on school today, we worked with Floppy disks.

 

I love them.

I need them.

 

So is there a 5.25" floppy disk reader? Does that even exist? :P

 

Thanks in advance!

I actually have a few of those sitting around for machines I'm rebuilding. If I have an extra one and you're seriously interested, I'd be willing to send it to you for the cost of shipping.

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I only know that they were Floppy Disks :P

They were quite small though, the reader only used half a 5.25" bay.

Which disk did they look like? Because that will greatly effect what kind of drive you need.

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I actually have a few of those sitting around for machines I'm rebuilding. If I have an extra one and you're seriously interested, I'd be willing to send it to you for the cost of shipping.

What do they look like? If they will look fancy in my build, I would even pay you :P

 

Which disk did they look like? Because that will greatly effect what kind of drive you need.

I'm pretty sure it's the smallest one!

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What do they look like? If they will look fancy in my build, I would even pay you :P

 

I'm pretty sure it's the smallest one!

If they are the smalles ones, with the plastic caseing and metal slide cover, then they would be 3.5" floppies, and I definitely have extras of those drives. They're nothing special, the usual beige and black. Some are from Dell OptiPlex machines, so they don't have faceplates. I'll dig them out later this afternoon and take some pictures.

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If they are the smalles ones, with the plastic caseing and metal slide cover, then they would be 3.5" floppies, and I definitely have extras of those drives. They're nothing special, the usual beige and black. Some are from Dell OptiPlex machines, so they don't have faceplates. I'll dig them out later this afternoon and take some pictures.

I can get diskette's from Germany, so I only need a drive to put it into :P

Thanks already!

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