4 Feb
2006
4 Feb
'06
2:51 p.m.
On Saturday 04 February 2006 05:32 pm, Chuck Guzis wrote:
...and I've got a couple of 5.25" floppies
where seeking to anything past
about cylinder 84/42 (depending on the drive) will cause the head to jam,
requiring manual intervention to free it.
I used to see this fairly often when I was fixing commodore stuff, the head
on the 1541 would get jammed to the inside, and one would have to open the
case and manually move it out before the drive would work again.
I suppose that one could pound a hole through a ribbon
or paper with an
impact printer printing over and over at the same spot.
Done that one, too...
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