Osborne OCC1

I made so more progress with my Osborne I project. Initially, I had taken a few steps forward by integrating the working parts of two non-working systems into a single working system. Well it seems that when I tried to put it all back together I managed to put a case screw right through the %@$# disk drive ribbon cable. Funny thing is is that the B drive worked but the A drive wouldn't boot but would provide listings from 'dir' command. I immediately thought alignment as the damn thing did clunk once upon reassembly. Well I discovered the cable problem and put the other one in. Viola, fixed! Anyway, I do plan to document this process. I did discover that you can convert a working B drive into an A drive if the A electronics is working. IOW, the mechanical parts of a Siemans 100 drive are the same, it is the electronics board that makes an A drive an A and a B drive a B. What I have now drive-wise is a good set of A and B drives plus a spare A drive and good B electronics board with a faulty drive mechanics portion. I could make the spare a B drive if need be (B!). Must be late. :) A last ditch effort will be to try and fix the faulty drive's mechanical portion. Either way, I'm done tommorrow and will reassemeble the working system and put the parts system back together as well. But I must first leave a trail to follow if ever me or anyone else picks up on these two systems in the future. Eric "Feldman, Robert" wrote: