who here has a 5.25" floppy in their PC?

[hans007]

my friend thinks he's cool, he went on ebay and put a 5.25 " 1.2mb / 3.5 inch combo floppy drive in his p4 2.4 ghz! now he has a B drive and 5.25" floppy icon in windows xp. i wanted to do it too, but my computer doesnt have any free 5.25" bays

 

[Mucman]

I got a spare one lying around... never know when I will need it

 

[Sluggo]

Dont have any installed, but have a few in the garage just in case they make a huge comeback

 

[notfred]

who the hell is "he"?

 

[Whitecloak]

I dont have a 3.5" floppy drive even.

 

[Hooligan]

Originally posted by: whitecloak
I dont have a 3.5" floppy drive even.

are you running a mac??

 

[max105]

I don't have a either kind of floppy....I never really had a use for them

 

[yakko]

I don't have one installed in my main machines but I have a couple spares and one in my 286.

 

[ViperMagic]

Ia there even aything on 5.25 floppy shtat will work in XP?

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: ChineseSkaterNoRice

Originally posted by: whitecloak
I dont have a 3.5" floppy drive even.

are you running a mac??

Not that I can tell from his rigs page: http://www.anandtech.com/myanandtech.html?member=56917 .

 

[HiTek21]

I got an old 5.25 Floppy disk drive in my closet somewhere, pulled it off my old 486 before i tossed it.

 

[xirtam]

I haven't included any kind of floppy device in any PC that I've built since 1996. I figure I can just network my computer with one of the retail schmuck computers that has a floppy drive if I ever need it, but I've very rarely needed a floppy. I got this P200 a few years ago on ebay for $100 that included a floppy, and used the floppy about twice.

Oh, and I got a laptop on FS/FT that has an external floppy. Haven't used it yet.

Haven't done the 5.25" thing since the IBM PCJr.

 

[gigapet]

oh on my computer here at work(i do web dev things), it is a win 95 machine pentium(yes the original) 166mhz. 64 mb ram and a 5 1/4 inch floppy lets not for get the 3.5 gb harddrive. I can confirm your presumptions, yes I hate this machine with all my soul.

 

[cavingjan]

I still have a combo drive in my 2000 server in the basement. For now.
But last night there was a fatality in our household. RIP power supply fan. So I just scrounged up at old AT powersupply and case here at work that I should've thrown out a year ago so I guess the quickest and easiest will be to transplant the motherboard and drives into this case and ditch the old one including the combo drive. That was a great old case. Dell knew how to make them back then (circa 94). This was the second time I've had to do soemthing about that fan.

 

[BigJohnKC]

I recently inherited my Dad's old computer when I built him a new one - rebuilt machine in an old Pentium 90 case with a 3.5/5.25 combo drive in it. Still works.

 

[CocaCola5]

I have a combo two in one.

 

[FoBoT]

i had 1-2 sitting about, but i think i tossed them

i usually don't put 3.5" floppies in pc's anymore, if i can help it

the sooner the floppy dies/goes away the better

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: whitecloak
I dont have a 3.5" floppy drive even.

 

[hoihtah]

i went to do some community service...
volunteer work at a local church.

we were on this project where we had to clean out the basement of this half-way home center.
and they threw out an old dx2 machine. so i snatched out the 5.25 outta there.


as for installing in my pc...
hmm.

i recently installed 3.5 just 'cause my wife needed it.
i don't think my wife will be asking for 5.25 floppy drive anytime soon.



it's just cool to have... right next to my apple IIe and PowerBook 180.

 

[FoBoT]

anybody have an 8" floppy from the old, old, olden days? anybody know if they will even work on x86 architecture?

 

[cjchaps]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
anybody have an 8" floppy from the old, old, olden days? anybody know if they will even work on x86 architecture?

I have one, but I don't have a computer that it works in.

 

[LiekOMG]

Nope, I gave those up along with my C=64 (RIP)

 

[NutBucket]

Don't have a floppy in my main machine, just a zip and burner. I have both in the other machine tho.

 

[J3anyus]

I have a ton of those drives stacked up in my garage.

 

[toant103]

Originally posted by: hans007
my friend thinks he's cool, he went on ebay and put a 5.25 " 1.2mb / 3.5 inch combo floppy drive in his p4 2.4 ghz! now he has a B drive and 5.25" floppy icon in windows xp. i wanted to do it too, but my computer doesnt have any free 5.25" bays

what are they?





JK