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Hello Roy - 

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CA>> I remember when my XT was still working some of the 360s
CA>> wouldn't read in the newer 1.2 meg floppy drives. I'm
CA>> hoping most will. 

RJT> I think it was more common for the problem to be the other
RJT> way around, where a 360k drive wouldn't read something
RJT> that was written on a 1.2M drive because it wrote a
RJT> skinnier track. 

True but I remember having problems both ways. 

CA>>> I have _one_ machine with a 5 1/4 floppy drive in it (an
CA>>> old 286) 

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CA>> I have old drives but would need a floppy controller and
CA>> old style ribbon cable etc. 

RJT> Got a bunch of those, including the original IBM
RJT> controller, and cables with edge connectors to match. 

CA>> Would hate to have to go through all that but I waited too
CA>> long to 'update' my 'archives'. :-( 

CA>>> and am wondering how long it would take me to transfer
CA>>> all of them over to CDs. 

RJT>> Maybe not as long as you might think. That older stuff
RJT>> was much less bulkier. 

CA>> True the files are smaller but the floppy drives are
CA>> slower as well. 

RJT> Not necessarily. The speed of the interface is pretty well
RJT> standard, until you got to newer MBs that would support
RJT> 2.88M drives, but those still run the older drives at the
RJT> slower speed. The trick is to do it on some platform that
RJT> lets you do something else while you're waiting, or use
RJT> more than one machine so you don't have to wait at all. 

Absolutely. :-) 

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