Discussions on vintage and retrocomputing
I occasionally find 3.5" floppy disks at the local thrift stores. There are usually new old stock disks on ebay too.
The USB floppy drives usually only support IBM formatted disks and are useless for data recovery. For any other formats, a Greaseweazle will come in very handy.
Yes, was about to post Greaseweazle. That and whatever scavenged drive sounds like the way to go in general. I don't have one yet just because it costs the right amount to go on my gift wishlist, lol.
https://www.floppydisk.com/ this is a real website with an actual reputable dealer behind it, or at least it was ten years ago when I bought some 5.25" disks from them, and the website looks exactly the same.
Maybe worth looking into. I wonder how much shipping to Canada would cost me.
I picked up an Amiga at a yard sale and found floppy disks on Amazon. I didn't bother buying any and instead bought a gotek floppy disk emulator.