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I stand to be corrected, but this sounds like something that's
out-dated, and wouldn't be found on a computer store shelf today. If
that's so, then the answer is still no, it can't be done, for all
intents and purposes.

Greg


On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:47:03PM -0500, Glenn at home wrote:
> I have a 5.25 floppy drive, in an external case, that connects via serial, 
> and perhaps you could use a serial to U S B converter with a setup like 
> that.
> Glenn
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