[vcf-midatlantic] Shugart SA800-2 drives
Mike Loewen
mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Sat Mar 26 05:13:04 UTC 2022
On Wed, 23 Mar 2022, Jonathan Chapman wrote:
>> Would you believe dirty phototransistors?
>
> That'd do it! I've had them fail, especially in Siemens 8" drives. I've also
> had them be too far out of alignment to be reliable. Joys of old machines,
> right? :P
Both drives are now formatting, reading and writing! The next step is to
connect them to my Sol 20 with a Micromation Doubler FDC. The two wood-sided
units were made for each other. :-)
http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/S100/drives.html
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
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