Mazak Floppy Conversion on PC

kenbaker0011 · Sep 10, 2010

We are working to transition from the Mazak floppy system to laptops with a serial interface.

Has anyone solved the problem of being able to read the floppy's on a pc?

Can you connect your Mazak floppy drive to a PC serial port or other device, and read directly?

Are there conversion services that take old floppy's and return the programs on CD?

Thanks for any input.

dinosaur · Sep 10, 2010

For about $20.00 you can get an external floppy drive with a USB connector.

It works great for old machine tools with floppy drives and new computers that don't have them. Just put the floppy in the external drive and back it up to your computer or laptop or burn a CD.

psychomill · Sep 10, 2010

You say you have a laptop with a serial port? Does the machine have a serial port for I/O?

skip the floppy all together and connect the laptop directly to the RS-232 on the control and use I/O.....

blackvisionit · Dec 27, 2011

Do a raw backup of all your floppies using OmniFlop

Backup needs to be done from a desktop PC with internal floppy

hitandmiss · Dec 27, 2011

I have a customer transitioning from Mazak floppies (from a Mazak Microdisk) to laptop based, using a program that emulates the microdisk. The present process is to read the program from the microdisk on the machine, and save to the laptop.

Bill

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