28 May
2015
28 May
'15
10:57 a.m.
On Thu, 28 May 2015, Alexandre Souza wrote:
Howdy guys, greetings (as always) from Brazil! :o)
I'm in a repairing spree! Got 5 (!) CP-500 (Brazilian TRS-80/III clone) to
repair. All of them with single/double sided floppy drives, and the whole
nine yards.
Since it is not pratical to test all these drives on CP500, is there a
good software solution I can use on a PC for floppy drive testing? Something
that makes repairing easier? Long time I don't get so many drives to
repair/refurbish/align
Personally, I would use Dysan Digital Diagnostic Diskette.
There were a couple of programs for using it on TRS80, but I don't know
where to find them, so use it on a PC.
You can normally do BETTER and more accurate alignment using an analog
alignment diskette (+ 20MHz dual trace scope), but I think that the
digital is "close enough".
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com