Does anyone have any knee jerk reaction to the idea of
putting a 5¼"
floppy drive on a USB-to-Floppy (nominally 3½") adapter?
Do I want to avoid tilting at this windmill?
The gadgets of this general ilk that *I* have encountered only really
work for accessing MS-DOS format floppies. If that's the scale of your
problem, and you have a compatible floppy drive, you probably stand a
chance.
If not, you probably need something akin to a Kryoflux.
De