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* Re: FC5025 5.25" USB floppy controller availablegary rockey
+- Re: FC5025 5.25" USB floppy controller availableDavid Schmidt
`- RE: Re: FC5025 5.25" USB floppy controller availableGarrett Meiers

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Subject: Re: FC5025 5.25" USB floppy controller available
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 by: gary rockey - Sun, 24 Apr 2022 12:29 UTC

On Friday, February 19, 2010 at 11:45:49 AM UTC-5, schmidtd wrote:
> This came across my desk yesterday - I guess I get to "scoop" it:
> <quote>
> The FC5025 5.25" USB floppy controller is now available!
> Device Side Data's FC5025 USB 5.25" floppy controller plugs into a
> USB port and enables you to attach a 5.25" floppy drive. With the
> FC5025
> and its included software, you can read Apple, Atari, Commodore, MS-
> DOS,
> North Star and TI disks.
> For more information and to order, see the web site: http://www.deviceside.com
> Before ordering, please note the limitations described on the web
> site. In
> particular, the FC5025 is read-only; it can read floppies but it can't
> write
> to them.
> </quote>
> I'm not affiliated in any way, but I did succumb to a knee-jerk
> reaction to order one. That was before I remembered I don't have a
> 1.2MB 5.25" floppy drive to hook up to it. ;-)

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 by: David Schmidt - Mon, 25 Apr 2022 15:22 UTC

On 4/24/22 8:34 AM, gary rockey wrote:
> [...]
> Where might I get one of these 5.25 floppy adapters? Device Side Date is locked out.

It is not... but the site doesn't have an SSL certificate, which your
browser may or may not care for. Here's the page for ordering - which
involves an email:
http://shop.deviceside.com/policy.html#contact

I don't have any idea if stock is still available, but the web page
makes it look that way.

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 by: Garrett Meiers - Thu, 28 Apr 2022 20:08 UTC

On Sun Apr 24 08:14:19 2022 fadden wrote:
> On Sunday, April 24, 2022 at 5:34:35 AM UTC-7, gary rockey wrote:
> > Where might I get one of these 5.25 floppy adapters? Device Side Date is locked out. If anyone has one please contact me ...g. L. Rockey...web site wwwglrockey.com ..... email glro...@att.net

The problem with the FC5025, is it is read-only, and doesn't support the 2nd side of a flippy disk due to the indexing.

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