I was looking on the internet for the HARDWARE-replacement of old 3"1/2 floppy drives in PC's running CDOS, version 1988, or PS/2-PC's, using MS-DOS NOT Y2000K, date set < y2000 still used as programming terminals in the industry.
( CDOS = Concurrent Dos, PS/2-PC is a dos-terminal in a public room, the previous PC did disappear some night )
We have plenty of problems to read the floppies, because the quality of both
- floppy drives
- floppies is going down. Also new floppies sold in the shop are often a problem ..
If anyone knows hardware that can replaces a 1.44 Mb floppy drive in the old PC's =< Pentium 2 PC's ?
I would like to put my SD-Card or USB-stick in the front-panel on the PC, and read or write it as if it is the second floppy drive B.
Is the next thing the only solution for my problem ?
= = = = i found only this project on the internet :
jan 2008 don't plan anymore to manufacture and sell this Floppy Emulator :-(.
the developer on his french website says that a limited production is going on ..