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1. mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 15:52:23 JST mcc

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   @foone OK, you're the one person I know who might know about this—

   Is it possible to get a USB 5-inch floppy drive right now? If so, where? It's hard to search on Amazon because searching "5 inch floppy" gives you 3.5 inch floppy drives…

   We're trying to figure out the least painful way to run some software on a Compaq Portable III that works but will no longer talk to its hard drive.

   https://mastodon.social/@mcc/113783888319654999

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 15:52:23 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     @mcc Sorry I didn't see this until you'd gotten many other replies!

     But yeah... Greaseweazle + an internal 5.25" drive, optionally with some kind of enclosure, is the way to go right now (unless you very specifically want to do apple/macintosh disks, where an Applesauce would make more sense)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 15:52:51 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     @mcc I'm happy to explain any details you want, but that's the short version.

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 16:23:56 JST mcc

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     • Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     @foone Cool, thanks! Would it be accurate to say an internal 5" drive is gonna run me well over $60 USD at this point?

     (I am trying to price the difference between being able to create floppies on a modern PC, vs adding a SD-card-based "hard drive" to the Portable)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 16:23:56 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     @mcc most likely, yeah. Getting a gotek floppy emulator and sticking flashfloppy on it will be much cheaper.

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 16:24:28 JST mcc

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     • Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     @foone The only other detail we are trying to figure out, which is "if we cannot find Miguel's DOS disk, and we cannot create our own disks, and we need DOS disk to load other software we want to load, is a Compaq Portable III likely to need a special Compaq Portable III DOS disk or will any DOS 3.1 disk do"

     But like

     There is NO WAY i would expect you to know this absurdly specific question, I'm just not sure how to research it myself exactly

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 16:24:28 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     @mcc it might need a special disk, but if it does I believe you can boot this one and create it: https://archive.org/details/compaq-portable-diagnostic-disk-5-25-inch-360kb