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Re: Reading old 5.25" dos floppies on a Amiga?
« on: February 10, 2017, 02:05:59 AM »
if the 5.25" drive is originally a PC drive, you will need to build a logic adapter for it.   my dad made me one back in the day.  It was amazing to have DF1: on a otherwise limited A500.

Not sure how this applies to PC 'dos' disks.   would be less heart ache to source a PC for the job.

I was just wondering if you can still purchase blank 5.25" media.  looks grime and limited these days, accept if you look at http://www.floppydisk.com/   they have a service to archive your disks for you.

I already cleared out my local supermarket of all the 3.5" blanks diskettes a few years ago was something like 50 cents a box of 10
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Re: Reading old 5.25" dos floppies on a Amiga?
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2017, 02:43:39 AM »
I still cant believe only 360k..  seems like a struggle to fit anything on there.  

More info about the Amiga 1020 drive

http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/damigas2.html