Work in Progress: Getting an 8" Floppy Drive

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I've been wanting to join the kewl kids klub on YouTube and also get an 8" floppy drive. Soon.

I do have first-hand experience with an 8" floppy drive in actual use - in the late 80s I did high school work experience with IBM in Brisbane. One of the call-out jobs I followed along on involved fixing an IBM cheque-sorting machine which used an 8" floppy drive. I vaguely remember the guy telling me that we would try rebooting it from the floppy drive to see if that helped ... I also vaguely remember ATMs that were running on OS/2. Anyway ...

I managed to get an unopened box of Aussie-made Verbatim disks locally, and just received a 34-pin-to-50-pin converter board.

The Verbatim disks are double-sided (DS), single-density (SD).

I've also got some Soviet-era Bulgarian-made 8" floppies (EC5274) on their way from Ukraine ... hopefully.

Then I just need to get an appropriate drive ...

@CuriousMarc's excellent "All you (n)ever wanted to know about 8" floppy drives":
https://youtu.be/oL0LXSE1jeM

Adrian's video on using the 8" floppy drive:
https://youtu.be/TfEzjcG_0gs

Le Floppy Adapteur:
https://www.tindie.com/products/siliconinsider/8-floppy-disk-interface-50-pin-to-34-pin-adapter/



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