What to do with those old 5.25 floppy drives

[Pickett Wilson]

Now here is some creative thinking! 😉

http://cgi.ebay.com/POLAROID-Land-F...ltDomain_0&hash=item3f06263c68#ht_1901wt_1141

 

[TheHub]

I don't get it 🙁

 

[Pickett Wilson]

The photo is a 5.25 inch floppy drive mechanism. Says it's a Polaroid back. Maybe you could stuff a sheet of 55 P/N in there. 🙂

 

[Pickett Wilson]

TheHub, have you ever seen a 5.25 inch floppy disk? 🙂

 

[ruby.monkey]

Better yet ...

 

[sepiareverb]

Free shipping anyway.

 

[migtex]

Frame them! Specially if they come in colors!

 

[Pickett Wilson]

I guess lots of adults these days have never seen a floppy disk! lol

That was 30 years ago. God, I'm getting old.

 

[rbiemer]

Can this seller truly be the "ultimate geek" if they confuse two outdated technologies like this? 😀
I remember getting some CAD program on 9 or 10 of the 5.25" disks.. that took a seriously long time to install.
Rob

 

[Pickett Wilson]

I have some old version of Pagemaker here somewhere that came on 13 5.25 inch disks!

 

[rbiemer]

I can't recall; is the 500 holder usable with the Fuji 4 x 5 instant film?
Rob

 

[smasher]

It depends on whether you format it for FAT16 or NTFS.

 

[bigeye]

I have a box of 8" floppies in my desk (320k, I think). Would those be for 8x10?

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[shadowfox]

Better yet ...

That is amazing!
How do they make the connection between that irritating noise with tone frequencies? 😀

 

[Pickett Wilson]

Drive isn't going to last very long doing that trick! But, what else would you do with a 5.25 inch drive mech these days!

I remember in the early 1980's aligning the heads on the old drives with a 100 Mhz Dual Trace Oscilloscope! Back when you could actually repair a drive.

 

[Chris101]

I can't recall; is the 500 holder usable with the Fuji 4 x 5 instant film?
Rob

No it is not.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

That's crazy.

You can use double-sided drives for Graflex packs, but need a single-sided drive for Polaroid.

 

[MartinP]

Ooops, I remember the eight inch floppy (or was it 8 1/2" ??) enclosures as being huge, probably bigger than a small-form-factor desktop pc unit these days. Now I do feel old, thanks a bunch 😉