DaveP wrote on 12/02/8 at 21:45:37:Thanks Guys! Let me know if someone comes up with something.
Believe it or not, 5.25" floppy drives are difficult to come by. Ebay has lots in the US, but none in Canada. To have to buy one, pay the exchange, plus get hosed on shipping, seems criminal. I asked at a few local used computer parts stores, and they looked at me like I was a Martian.
(Frankly, I think most of the kids at these stores, have never seen, or heard of 5.25" floppy drives.)
I've got an old Pll that I can fit it into. Jim did everything in WP 5.1 (DOS), which I still have. It's a winter project that will easily keep me out of trouble.
I checked with my Mom - she's got a working 5.25" drive that's not installed in any computer. I've got a couple machines that I could put it in.
Unfortunately, I wouldn't be able to hand it out on long-term loan to you - some of my parents' older business records are still on 5.25" floppy, so she needs it in case of the faint possibility that she has to access them. However, if you want, I could take the disks and convert them to another format.
Just think, though: it could be worse. Imagine if the newsletters were stored on cassette tape or 8" floppy, both of which were options on the first computer my family got: a TRS-80.