I owned all the 1541 drives that ran at our exhibit 2 years ago. And I even lent one or two of my own for the museum to work, but those are not working now as well. I don't want to keep loaning drives and having them not work. Most likely just need a disk head cleaning, but I just haven't had the time to open them up and try that. Our exhibit next time won't have the 1541 drives, but will use uIEC instead to reduce power and troubleshooting. On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 11:14 AM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Ray Sills via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Dec 28, 2015, at 1:40 AM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
No. But in all likelihood 95% of them are not fully functional. This is from experience testing various ones in the past to find a functional one. It becomes burdensome to test all of them. At some point we need to
clean
or repair them. If you have the time, energy and patience to test all of them, then free to do so!
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 1:30 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
until we get a working 1541
There are several in storage. Have we tested them all?
One of the items I donated way back when was an Indus drive… all black, not at all “Commodore-like”. But, if it’s still around, it might work. It’s an operational clone of the 1541, and IMO, was a better drive when I used it.
73 de Ray
Can't VCFed spring for an uIEC drive then? I think it would be a worthy expense if you can't get a 1541 up and running, and/or they keep breaking down.
Otherwise how did Jeff and Dan get their c64 network running? I guess these are drives owned by Jeff or Dan, not FKA MARCH VFED.
-- Bill