PCs that support only one floppy drive in hardware

Tue Oct 11 23:30:09 CDT 2005

On 10/12/2005 at 1:55 AM Dan Williams wrote:

>Just to complicate things more. I haven't taken one apart, but I was
>thinking some of the older laptop floppy drives might not be so
>integrated. You can get a pci-->pcmcia card for around £15 here. Would
>a pcmcia flopply drive fit the bill ?

Dan, I don't think I've ever seen a 5.25" PCMCIA drive.  Do they exist?  There's actually not a huge amount of difference between the PCMCIA bus and ISA.  IIRC, you can get PCMCIA-PC104 adapters and PC104 is very close to ISA.

Cheers,
Chuck