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  • japlytic
    Badcaps Legend
    • Oct 2005
    • 2086
    • Australia
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    2.88MB floppy disk drive use in non-IBM and non-PC equipment?

    I am curious about 2.88MB floppy drives being used in non-IBM and non-PC equipment such as test and measurement equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analysers.
    Has anyone seen such floppy drives used for such equipment?
    As far as you may know, 2.88MB floppy drives and disks are hard to get, even back then.
    Also, I seriously doubt there would ever be a 2.88MB floppy drive emulator out there (I tried searching myself).
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    • Uranium-235
      Comrade Glimmer
      • Aug 2007
      • 5042
      • US
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      Re: 2.88MB floppy disk drive use in non-IBM and non-PC equipment?

      2.88 was Japans floppy standard. In the bios, you would have to select it manually (not P&P compatible). Which means if and oem device has no way to select 2.88M, The firmware built into it has no way to know to allocate any extra space

      there are a few drives on ebay, only 1-2 within a feasible price range, disks unused are about $20
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