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Tag: Floppy Drive

  • Attempting to Fix a 3.5″ Floppy Drive and a New 5.25″ Drive

    The start of the year is a time when I am usually visiting family, but is also a time for cleaning out old junk and rubbish at work. This year I did a little cleaning out whilst visiting family and found an old 3.25″ floppy drive from our original old…

  • Teac USB Floppy drive FD 05PUB

    Recently I bought a new Ryzen based PC, which has a distinct lack of legacy support and even lacks optical drives. This is hardly surprising as this is the logical conclusion of what has been an increasing trend of storing and transferring data with flash drives, on the “cloud” or…

  • Hardware Donation

    It’s not everyday that someone moves house, and when someone I know moved house recently they found a pile of old computer gear they didn’t want anymore. They asked me if I wanted any of it and of course I said yes! So last weekend I got this rather large…

  • Fixing a NEC FD1157C floppy drive

    Last time I went to see my family out in the bush I had a look at some of the hardware I had in storage there. I found I had a NEC FD1157C 5.25″ floppy disk drive made in 1989 that had come from an Epson machine one of my…

  • Floppy backup and some GwBasic programs

    This week my brother brought back all the remaining floppies we had at home for the purposes of backing them up. So I’ve been quite busy this weekend imaging disks and copying data. I have in the process discovered some interesting software that I forgot we had, and some I…

  • Low Level Formatting Floppy Disks

    Yesterday I re-aligned my old 5.25″ floppy disk drive from our old computer. In the process I was formatting and checking the alignment of the disk using software called ImageDisk by David Dunfield. My drive was behaving badly at one point and thought there were bad sectors at random points,…

  • Aligning a Canon MD 5501 5.25″ FDD

    A couple of weeks ago I mechanically serviced an old Canon 5.25″ floppy disk drive that came out of our old computer. As I mentioned here, the drive was in desperate need of repair and restoration. I decided to repair this particular drive mostly for sentimental reasons as it was…

  • More Hardware Shenanigans

    This weekend I was rather busy catching up on housework and replacing some parts on my motorbike after going on a short holiday. So I was unable to really find any time to play a game for writing about. I did however find some time to do a little bit…