[vcf-midatlantic] Shugart SA800-2 drives

Jonathan Chapman lists at glitchwrks.com
Mon Mar 28 11:52:12 UTC 2022


Nice! Looking forward to seeing it :D

Thanks,
Jonathan

------- Original Message -------

On Monday, March 28th, 2022 at 00:24, Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Mar 2022, Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> And finally, the drives are connected to the Sol with the Micromation
>
> Doubler installed, running a 48K CP/M 2.2!
>
> http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/S100/Sol20/SolCPM-2.jpg
>
> The system will be part of my VCF East exhibit.
>
> Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
>
> Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/


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