floppy drive emulator hardware usb or sdcard

[alfons de wolf]

I was looking on the internet
for the HARDWARE-replacement of old 3"1/2 floppy drives in
PC's running CDOS, version 1988,
or
PS/2-PC's, using MS-DOS NOT Y2000K, date set < y2000
still used as programming terminals in the industry.

( CDOS = Concurrent Dos,
PS/2-PC is a dos-terminal in a public room,
the previous PC did disappear some night )

We have plenty of problems to read the floppies,
because the quality of both
- floppy drives
- floppies
is going down.
Also new floppies sold in the shop are often a problem ..


If anyone knows hardware that can replaces a 1.44 Mb floppy drive in
the old PC's =< Pentium 2 PC's ?

I would like to put my SD-Card or USB-stick in the front-panel
on the PC,
and read or write it as if it is the second floppy drive B.

Is the next thing the only solution for my problem ?

= = = = i found only this project on the internet :

http://www.torlus.com/floppy/index.php?News

jan 2008
don't plan anymore to manufacture and sell this Floppy Emulator :-(.

the developer on his french website says that a limited
production is going on ..

http://jeanfrancoisdelnero.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html
Dernière minute:
Une fabrication d'une petite série de la version USB de l'emulateur est en
cours de préparation.
Pour en profiter inscrivez-vous sur le forum.

18-03-2008:
Un reportage sur ce projet a été réalisé et diffusé par la chaine NoLife ;-)

 

[Jan Panteltje]

I was looking on the internet
for the HARDWARE-replacement of old 3"1/2 floppy drives in
PC's running CDOS, version 1988,
or
PS/2-PC's, using MS-DOS NOT Y2000K, date set < y2000
still used as programming terminals in the industry.

( CDOS = Concurrent Dos,
PS/2-PC is a dos-terminal in a public room,
the previous PC did disappear some night )

We have plenty of problems to read the floppies,
because the quality of both
- floppy drives
- floppies
is going down.
Also new floppies sold in the shop are often a problem ..

One advice:
Get a modern PC.
Copy all your floppies to harddisk.
Get a DVD burner.
Burn to DVD.

As things are, expect no more then 10 years for any given format to persist and be readable.
This means copy everything every x years or sooner.
Digital copies have no losses, but old floppies become unreadable, as you found out.

 

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I was looking on the internet for the HARDWARE-replacement

of old 3"1/2 floppy drives in PC's
We have plenty of problems to read the floppies,
I would like to put my SD-Card or USB-stick in the front-panel
on the PC,
and read or write it as if it is the second floppy drive B.

This appears to be what you are after
http://qhsfd.com/product.asp

Yes, the website appears to just be in Chineese, you
will have to email them I suppose

Bob