Please help!! 3.5" drive in an XT ??

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From: Michael A. Chu
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:32

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Hi Netters,

    I have an old IBM XT.  The problem is that yesterday the 5-1/4" 360K    
floppy died.  I would like to replace this bad drive with a 3.5" drive.
It really doesn't matter to me if it's the 720K or the 1.44MB drive (although
I can't seem to find a 720K drive anymore).  Does anyone have any suggestions,
ideas, comments, or similar experiences doing this ??  I think someone posted
a similar question earlier, but I didn't save it since at the time I didn't
need to replace the drive.  Oh,  I also have 2 MFM HD drives in the computer.

Please help !!!!

Thanks in advance,

Mike Chu   
(amichael@edison.seas.ucla.edu)

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