Could "Vailen" confirm, they have a working IBM 5110-3 (or 5120)? Does it already have 8-inch floppy drives that are the correct IBM model to work with that computer? It's unclear from their short post, what they have exactly.
Vailen says "purchase hardware I need to create my own 8-inch disk". That could mean either "I need floppy drives for my 5110-3" or "I need to set up some other computer, buy 8-inch drives, buy/use an appropriate floppy controller, with software X, and then produce diskettes from the image-files I've obtained (from location unstated)". Either is challenging. The more information provided, the more targeted the help that Vailen will be offered.
As far as where to post this request. The first key is about working with disk formats and floppy drives. Already got targeted response on the 5110 disk formats in the IMD file. Now it's a "tools" question. later, it may be IBM 5110 questions, content-search of the forums will find where those questions get best responses.
Fortunately, the IMD internal infor, appears to reference a common-enough diskette format, for possible diskette reproduction by old-school (IBM-PC floppy) controllers. But it would take someone familiar with 5110's with floppy drives (kinda rare), to *confirm* results from particular non-5110 hardware will actually work. Someone could end up postal-mailing this Vailen some produced diskettes.
The traditional alternative for use of IMD images, is to download (serial) a format-and-write program into the target computer (the 5110), which then formats a diskette on the target computer. That program may also write a downloaded disk image to that diskette. Alternatively, two programs to do those things.
It's possible, the origin of those 5110 disk images, includes information on who provided those images, and how they can be used or were used. It's to the owner's benefit to touch bases with as many 5110 people as they can find, not to mention disk-imaging people with 5110 experiences.
- regards Herb Johnson