Wow; $192 for a 5.25" floppy disk drive

[David Griffith]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Barry Watzman wrote:

> 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.

I agree.  Perhaps one can start with one of the open-source FPGA
implementations of floppy controllers known to support 5.25" and 3.5"
drives.  Couple that with (mumble)'s 8" converter gizmo.  Add to that a
general-purpose USB controller chip.


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David Griffith
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