You already got some responses to this post, but here is my experience.
About 12 years ago, I had a whole lab of these computers. When the
floppy drive failed, I tried to adapt a standard floppy mechanism, but
found that it was too complicated. The drive has a proprietary
interface, but is otherwise mechanical. You just press the eject button
to get the floppy disk out and simply insert a new one the way most
floppy drives work. If you can't insert a floppy, make sure that there
is not one stuck in there already.

Peter
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Problem is, I can't figure out how to put the floppy in.  Is this one of
those machines, like the old Apple, that sort of semi automated the
floppy insertion process, you kinda start it in and then the drive grabs
it?  Or is the floppy fried also.  I just can not mechanically insert
the floppy disk. And I don't want to force it.  Shucks, you can't force
it, it just won't go in!

Is there some way I can hook up a 1.4 MB floppy to the drive cable or am
I stuck with ancient history tech?  I am tempted to just take one of my
junk IDE-HDD ISA cards from the old days, that I got when IDE drives
first came out, and install it a newer machine and just copy the drive,
but I would like to fire up the old IBM if possible.  I really don't
want to go through the gyrations of turning off lots of switches for IDE
selection in the CMOS, unless I absolutely have to.

Robert B. Hemming
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