Wow; $192 for a 5.25" floppy disk drive

[Barry Watzman]

Don't know if any of you saw this, but a 5.25" floppy disk drive just went
for $192 on E-Bay tonight (Wed., 10/18).

It was a "backpack" external parallel port drive, New Old Stock in Box,
still shrink wrapped.

I am strongly of the opinion that there is a far bigger market than is
generally perceived for a USB floppy disk controller that will support 5.25"
and even 8" drives, if only someone would develop the product.