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reflectedodds@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoRight now the challenge is to get data off of my 5.25" floppy disks. Online shops are full of 3.5" to usb readers, but nothing for 5.25".
The reader in the computer still works.
Toes@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Oh the serial idea sounds like fun. You would need a null modem cable for that. A regular non-crossover serial cable typically won’t work.
You could use ZMODEM for that.
There are adapters out there to connect some floppy drives to a modern computer but they tend to be expensive or difficult.
Alternately, you could just copy the large floppies to the smaller kind. Then use a more common usb floppy drive for that.
If you could get a ISA ethernet card into that box, you could setup networking and transfer that way.
reflectedodds@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thanks for that. Looked online a bit, I’m going to order an rs232 to usb null modem cable. Then it looks like in DOS I should be able to set the baud and just copy a file to the port. On the receiving side I can program something to just read from the com port straight to a file. Add some automation and voila. 🤞
Toes@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Yeah, sounds like a plan. The zmodem protocol was designed for this if you wanna save writing your own tool from scratch?
reflectedodds@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We’ll see how far I get. I mean if I can just do
copy file \\.\COM#on the DOS side andcat /dev/USB# > fileon my laptop side then I’ll be happy.