On Jul 31, 1:17 pm, sunshine wrote:
Hi,

we are still using the obsolete HP4145B Parameter Analyzer. ... it still needs the floppy drive with
a bootdisk. Unfortunately the floppy drive broke and Agilent does not
have any spare parts. Even though it is 3.5" it is not compatible with
the common PC floppy drives.

Some HP equipment used a controller board with odd connector, under a
standard
Sony mechanism. Early Macintosh (800k) floppy disks were similar in
the
mechanisms, but not the controllers. You can find a similar SONY part
and
swap the controllers. Maybe.