Reviving old posts

[ric]

http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2503

[jtemples]

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2503

But where to get the drive itself?

Here's my floppy; no evidence of any oxide in the bottom of the sleeve:

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[ric]

$40.
NEW OEM TEAC FD-55GFR 5.25" 5-1/4 INTERNAL FLOPPY DISK DRIVE BEIGE 19307672-39
http://www.ebay.com/itm/171302202295

[Ian.M]

IBM PC DOS 1.0 uses a disk format that is long obsolete. 160K single sided, 8 sectors per track. Recovering usable images from those without a 360K drive and a controller old enough to support the format may be an interesting challenge . . . .
I've got IBM DOS 3.3 on 360K 40T DSDD disks that are probably still readable, and am not sufficiently interested in intel based archaeology to contemplate booting anything earlier. In fact if I had to use a DOS 3, I'd use Compaq Dos 3.31 which introduced FAT16B and supports drives over 32MB.

[jtemples]

$40.
NEW OEM TEAC FD-55GFR 5.25" 5-1/4 INTERNAL FLOPPY DISK DRIVE BEIGE 19307672-39
http://www.ebay.com/itm/171302202295

And he sold 66 of them!