[vcf-midatlantic] Museum report

[Jeffrey Brace]

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 at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Ray Sills via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > > On Dec 28, 2015, at 1:40 AM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <
> > vcf-midatlantic at 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 at 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
>