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Alex Eisenhut:
ED on 5.25" disks? Why not! I didn't know about this
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/334196427836
I'm not coughing up ~400$ CDN for a showpiece, but it was tempting. But no media for it.
Oh well.

gslick:
Those 2.4M floppy drives are used in IBM 3174 Establishment Controllers to load the system microcode. I don't know if there were any other devices that used those 2.4M floppy drives.

Here's a teardown video of an IBM 3174-61R

Alex Eisenhut:
Oh my. Chunky. Want.

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