21 Dec
2012
21 Dec
'12
1:08 p.m.
On 12/21/12 11:58 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
If you pick a used one up, be certain to check the
almost bewildering number of customer cuts/jumpers on the PCB before deploying the
unit--and redoing them if needed.
The other thing to be careful about is the felt pad on arm above the R/W head. It was
removable, and I've come across a number
of them that had it missing, or had the felt torn off the little plastic replaceable part.
Another common SS drive was Siemens.
There were a lot of them surplus around in the late 70's.
I just switched my double sided reader to a AHA-1522 with 8477A controller and a Shugart
851 and the combo is working very well.
It is MUCH easier to clean the heads with a cotton swab on the Shugart than on the
half-height QumeTrack I was using.
Cleaning the heads on a full-height Qume DT-8 is pretty much impossible because of the
plastic shroud around the head assembly.