First post, by Blurredman
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Hey,
Pretty soon, come the other side of the new year i'm looking into building a new pc. One of the many drawbacks I will find is;
1) I'll need an IDE controller (cheaper than two new DVD drives right? 😊 )
2)Possibly a PS/2 controller card - I know a few years ago, certain makes particularly ASUS were in the process of having just one PS/2 socket, or maybe non at all. In recent weeks while looking, I've seen this behaviour gone backwards, and ps/2 in both kb and mouse is typical again on motherboards - so this is possibly a non- issue. 😲
3) and most importantly, currently I have a Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4, this also gives the ability to use both a 3.5" floppy drive and my 5.25" floppy drive. Most motherboard manufactures do not even have the controller now, let alone the implementation of B:. I am wondering if there are any 'reputable' makes that give me that option.
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If not, it looks like i'll have to rig up my machine, when it is retired as a main pc, with all these features and share them on the network. Seems a pitty, beacause I like the usability of my current PC, but an interesting to see if any major brands are keeping some legacy devices? 😈
Naturally alot of my searches bring up threads with such comments inside as "OMG, you're using floppy in 2014, update!" or "use a USB one" which is beyond the point of even bothering to read. I use my floppies to transfer to my AMSTRAD PC1512, or my Amstrad CPC, or my Acorn etc etc etc. At least on this forum we're in the same interest (I hope 😊 )
Cat weasels are an alternative, but as far as I've read, they're not a typical controller like an ISA card, more a controller that allows the images to be written to the drive, but not windows per se.
