{"id":7772,"date":"2023-01-19T20:02:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T03:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=7772"},"modified":"2024-06-15T10:39:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T17:39:47","slug":"8-floppy-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=7772","title":{"rendered":"8&#8243; Floppy drive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>8&#8243; floppy drives are the earliest form of floppy drives connected to early minicomputers. By the time of personal computers, 8&#8243; floppy drives had been replaced with 5.25&#8243; floppy drives. But those 5.25&#8243; (and later drives) were still often based on the Shugard interface. <br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@adriansdigitalbasement\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@adriansdigitalbasement\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian&#8217;s Digital Basement<\/a> shows how he hooked up an 8&#8243; floppy drive from a TSR-80 Model II to a 386SX computer &#8211; and gets it to boot! This is almost certainly something I want to try some day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TfEzjcG_0gs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2021\/11\/10\/8floppy-on-your-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2021\/11\/10\/8floppy-on-your-pc\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8&#8243; floppy drives are the earliest form of floppy drives connected to early minicomputers. By the time of personal computers, 8&#8243; floppy drives had been replaced with 5.25&#8243; floppy drives. But those 5.25&#8243; (and later drives) were still often based on the Shugard interface. Adrian&#8217;s Digital Basement shows how he hooked up an 8&#8243; floppy drive from a TSR-80 Model II to a 386SX computer &#8211; and gets it to boot! 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