WTB: working 5.25 floppy for a Model 3!

[mbbrutman]

Mike (et al),

I found that using a q-tip and Rubber Renue and then a quick wipe with a clean cotton cloth will get those contacts working like new.

We used to have to do it at my first repair company for people that liked to drink acidy, syrupy things while working at their computers and weren't all that good at hitting their mouths.

Rubber Renue (has many names and spellings) can be found at any place that services VCR, tape decks, turntables or electronic parts suppliers and is used to resurface the rubber belts in many A/V components.

I think in my case I am suffering from poor conductivity. But "Rubber Renue" (or something like it) sounds like it should be in the bag of tricks. As the machines get older the rubber parts definitely dry out and deteriorate.


Mike

 

[bjones]

No doubt that chromedome's key repair method works Here's just a quickie video of it playing a few games.

Wierd but I presume the noise the video camera picked up is the legendary RF emissions from the model 3/IV?

 

[knutrl]

St506

St506

If anyone is skilled with resurrecting data from a seagate ST506 on a PC please, contact me. The 5mb drive is not behaving, but on that drive is the source code for many classic arcade games. I'd love to put it in the hands of someone far more experienced than I to attempt to retrieve data.

should be somewhere else but I reply anyway :lookroun:

Does it turn? Does it work at all?

That is an MFM disk and unfortunately it is paired with the driver card by low level format so recovery might be difficult because if it doesn't work with the original card it is even less likely to work with any other MFM disk controller. It was typical to refresh the low level format using tools like Spinrite. This is very different from how IDE and SCSI drives work because on them the critical parts are moved to the card on the drive.

You might still try another MFM controller though. But, whatever you do, do not write to a failing disk.

Knut

 

[bjones]

the drive has a winchester chassis in between it and the PC. If I go direct from pc to xebec to drive, the pc recognizes the drive but doesn't read properly. If I put the chassis in the picture I get nothing.