First post, by bucket
My next project will be resurrecting my dad's IBM 5150. It's a ways off and I haven't looked into it yet; I'm still in the "poking around eBay" phase. Getting software onto the machine would be the challenge (assuming everything still works) because most of his disks are HAM radio programs that are not at all useful to me. As it stands, I'd have to acquire boot disks and such from the internet and get them onto the 5150 somehow. I could...
a) Buy an external or internal 5" floppy drive. This might be cool, because I could also peruse my old C64 collection.
b) Put a 3.5" drive into the 5150. The other floppy drive is half-height so it would be an easy install.
c) Plug the HDD into a newer desktop, if that's at all possible.
So (a) is the most beneficial but also the most expensive. In fact, it looks as if cost and benefit are correlated. What is everyone else's experience?