Hi,
recently I was thinking about what to do with my old Shuttle barebone.
Model SK41G with Athlon XP on board.
Then I noticed the headers for the ribbon cable for the floppy disk drives and remembered the lot of 5.25" floppy drives, laying somewhere in a box.
Some time later, I got the system running: "SSD" with 16 gigabytes on an IDE/PATA adapter, 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives. First boot: all drives detected by the BIOS, the drives performed the typical "floppy seek" sound (how long was it, having heard it last time?).
Then - within a short attack of mental derangement - I installed Windows 7 on that system. And it works. Remarkable: Win7 has a dedicated black disk icon for 5.25 floppies. They can be read and written. Only drawback is formatting, which is not supported.
Performance of the PC is not that bad due to the flash disk, 2 gigs of RAM and the Athlon running at 2 GHz.
This machine is now my "old floppy disk to USB stick converter".
Tom