How many of you still remember the good old days where 5.25″ floppy disk drives used to rule the roost? Well, how about taking one of those antique pieces of technology and converting it into a CD-ROM drive? All you need to do is fit a micro ATX motherboard right inside it and modify the floppy drive to accept CDs and you’re good to go. Makes those old XT casings much more useful instead of collecting dust in the attic. Here’s what the creator had to say about his project :-

I gutted that vintage IBM 5160 XT computer. and welded in the supports for a micro ATX

motherboard, as well as a ton of other case mods to compose it work. and converting the old 5.25″ floppy drive to a slot-loading DVD burner was the finishing touch to my XT project. I used a slot-loading Panasonic UJ-845 DVD-RAM drive with a “JAE to IDE adapter”. to construct it work on a home computer. i plus had to reroute the LED and eject button from the DVD to the faceplate of the old floppy drive. Lots of work, but I’m very happy with the results.

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Orginal post by Rick Broida