WANTED: someone to transfer IBM 5110 BASIC programs to modern PC

[Eric Smith]

Fred Cisin wrote:
 > Similarly, if the 5110 is in good working order, you could install a
 > 1.2M 5.25" drive on it, copy the files, and then extract them at your 
leisure

Possible, but slightly less easy that it sounds.  IIRC, the 8-inch 
floppy drives used in the 5114 disk drives for the 5110 (and built into 
the 5120) are IBM 53FD drives, which do not have the same electrical 
interface as the industry-standard drives pioneered by Shugart.