5¼ Floppy Drive Converted to Slot-loading DVD Burner, IBM XT

new video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s1vTw8zfcY

i gutted this vintage IBM 5160 XT computer. and welded in the supports for a micro ATX motherboard, as well as a ton of other case mods to make it work. and converting the old 5¼ floppy drive to a slot-loading DVD burner was the finishing touch to my XT project. i used a slot-loading Panasonic UJ-845 DVD-RAM drive with a "jae to ide adapter". to make it work on a home computer. i also had to reroute the led and eject button from the DVD to the faceplate of the old floppy drive. lots of work, but I'm very happy with the results.

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[aelievense]

I think I had a small orgasm watching this video.

[shooter83]

@aelievense Glad i could be of service ;)

[thedoglover555]

i would never do the because Microsoft will never make that drive again or the disks ever again! the new thing today is a usb flash drive to save files.

[shooter83]

"Microsoft will never make that drive again"

[RomanticLinguaphilia]

You come up with some near ideas :-)

[TheUltraCoolDude1]

that is soo frickin' cool!

[HoneycombAgent]

I wonder what the "Miniscribe" hard disk drive specs were?

[matthew65536]

HOW did you do that and run windows xp on it?????

[daiatlus79]

@shooter83 i wonder if they realized what they said... facepalm lol

[coolbro12389]

damnn i wanted to do this so bad with my old DTK computer, i still got it and wanna do it eventually

[kodoku42]

Now I'm definetly going to save the faceplate at least

[kodoku42]

Thanks for this video, I was about to throw my 5¼ floppy drive away because I'm planning to convert my old IBM case to an ATX compatable PC :)

[scavenger4life]

nice!



[2wayfreq]

I'm going to convert an XT too! Bear in mind that it will be a (Non-Working Parts) XT. Meaning that the Floppy drive, motherboard etc are no good and not repairable! I think it will be a Blast, nice work!!