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Thank you so much for your details, here is a video of the boot trial on A

so you recommend to re-clean the head only ? What about others questions, tests, creating diagnostic disk etc. Thanks a lot again for your time;

In addition here is the link to above mentioned Osborne disk images, I succeeded in burning only the SSDD cp/m which is already very cool

Hi, First many thanks for this quick reply and for your time already spent in helping me <3 I guess My Osborne 1 v2 (OS v1.44) stayed a long time without activity. I first replaced the Rifas, cleaned the A disk head and made a first trial. The A drive made too much strange noise and I had a...

Hi, any update about this issue ? I'm just facing about the same... I'm worrying about moved something by error on drive A in moving the head by hand to lubricate (the Osborne was'nt use for a while) Thanks for your king help and warm regards from France Stéphane

Dear all, I’m the happy owner of a Macintosh SE M5011 first version with the 800k floppy and internal 20SC which luckily badged as well at its back. Unfortunately I’m not able to have it booting despite of trying different ram simms combinations that were tested well on my other SE Fdhd. Also...

Hi, I've got kind of similar issue, do you know how I could "reset the cpu by hand" ? Apply +5V on RESET pin ? Thanks Stéphane

Thank you so much for spending some of your time to help me, much appreciated. Be sure I unplugged everything and followed carrefully the wonderful procedure of diagnostics from minuszerodegrees page. Seems I have no remaining shorts and the 5160 is booting well. but still no fan at all thanks...

Thanks a lot, the web site minusdegree is just... Magical !! I succeeded in testing my motherboard, especially shortcuts on tension lines and now the 5160 is booting !!! Very strangely : - I do not have any fan running on the power supply althought the PC is running now well ?? - A last...

Hi all, thanks for accepting me here. Very happy to still find out a true and authentic forum in 2023 ! I'm just trying to restore a IBM 5160 and have several issues : 1- when I plug my MDA B&W+parallel card, the XT 5160 seems not booting anymore and I have no starting beaps anymore 2- also...