Notices by Benjamin Sonntag-King (benjamin@piaille.fr)

@mcc @foone
Also you may have a better luck with a floppy emulator connected to the Compaq (not sure how that could be feasible though)

someone seemed to have done it before ;)
https://www.oldsilicon.com/compaq-portable-iii

@mcc @foone I'd follow @dosnostalgic idea of using Greaseweazle board to connect any 5.25 floppy drive via USB to be able to write image on the floppies

hope you'll have fun doing it!

@mcc @foone I never saw a 5" floppy to USB hardware, does not really make sense to me :)

but I found some 5.25" floppy drive on ebay :
like here https://www.ebay.com/itm/395347047184
(no 5.25 drive found were cheap :/ )
and some floppy to usb chip (only, no drive)
https://aliexpress.com/item/1005002099113145.html
and finding some cable/ribbon adapter to make the 5.25 drive work with that chip ...

while going down that rabbit hole I found someone who did it :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjd2jSHBw7E

did it help?