Floppies

I have a lot of floppies that I need to start imaging and archiving and it's going to mean feeding this USB floppy drive constantly. I have an Atari SF314 external floppy drive with (at least) a broken switch, so I decided to gut it and managed to shim my USB drive in nice and snugly. The Atari drive is safely stored with my other projects to get that switch repaired.

This is 73% more enjoyable than getting disks in and out of this flimsy little USB drive that skitters around on the desk!

I did take the Atari drive apart to try and add the floppy bezel and/or parallelogram eject button, but the bezel doesn't fit with the new drive, and the button requires the bezel to stay put. I decided to stop before I break some 40 year old plastic tab.

Well looks like that USB drive won't read double density disks anyway. Whatever, still looks cool I'm not even mad.

I might actually have to use a Packard Bell 486 with Redhat 4 or Windows 95 for this.