22 Aug
2001
22 Aug
'01
6:01 a.m.
Well, I never had any door trouble with them back then, but I did note that the
mechanism was not particularly robust. In the meantime, one of the pins that
holds the latch in place has come out and, of course, the latch no longer works.
I used one of these drives once. Since they didn't do the job compatibly with
technology already available then, I set them aside and never used them.
Like many products that didn't "make it," these were far enough off-target
that
one could see it.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: TRS80 help needed
doesn't
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> In reality that's what the 6106's are, and I should have been more precise
about
> the way I described them. The ones that I have
were shipped with a front
face
> that fit a full-height slot. The BASF 6106
doc's I've had since '82 or so
are
> out on my carport where I put them one time when
my basement was suffering
from
excess water.
Some years have elapsed since then, however, since the water
comes back more frequently than the urge to put things away.
If the few dozen that we got in the late 70s, when they first came out
were representative, then do not put them in the wet location, as that
would be water pollution.
> I may actually find them again, if that might help. I'm sure the spec
> call for a mallet, however. I think the
Europeans developed a furniture
door
> closure similar to what this drive uses, i.e.
push to close, push to open.
I
have it on a
number of my Scandinavian furniture pieces.
If the few dozen that we got in the late 70s, when they first came out
were representative, the door was the least of the problems and worked OK,
but performance of the drive would be IMPROVED if the door were operated a
few hundred times with a very large sledge. Once the door could no longer
be opened, the majority of the problems with the drive would be likely to
cease.
They were, indeed, a SA400 substitute. But whoever was in charge of their
production quality control needs to be dipped in molten iron.
EVERY BASF drive that we sold had to be replaced. In contrast, very few
of the MPI drives had problems.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com