7 Mar
7 Mar
4:39 p.m.
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From: cctech-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-admin@classiccmp.org]On
Behalf Of Al Hartman
Sent: 06 March 2003 15:54
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: Atari ST spares
Atari decided to save a couple cents on each machine
by not buffering the select signals. They are pretty
dicey so that if you hook up a generic 720k Floppy
drive, you sometimes have trouble with them.
You're right there! Having said that the drive I dug out could have been bad
itself; it was in the big box of spares the missus brought back when she
left her IT technician job 3 years ago and was untested.
Try getting a generic 720k drive and putting it on...
Is this an internal or external drive?
Internal.
The keyboard damage and subsequent repair is interesting since I don't see
how it could've happened without breaking either the case or the keys
themselves; it's like something's punched right through the circuit board
and physically broken it, enough to push a section of it out by 2-3mm, and I
don't believe that someone would go to the trouble of replacing the top
section of the keyboard AND repair the circuit board.
The hole's been shored up with a hot glue gun and the tracks replaced with
nice blue wires soldered in....
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5:07 p.m.
The keyboard damage and subsequent repair is
interesting since I don't see
how it could've happened without breaking either the case or the keys
themselves; it's like something's punched right through the circuit board
and physically broken it, enough to push a section of it out by 2-3mm, and I
don't believe that someone would go to the trouble of replacing the top
section of the keyboard AND repair the circuit board.
The hole's been shored up with a hot glue gun and the tracks replaced with
nice blue wires soldered in....
Had this been a TRS-80 M3 or M4, I could understand it. There's a plastic
post in the case that seems to be designed to punch a nice hole in the
keyboard PCB (a horrible SRBP thing) if you drop something heavy on the
keyboard. Please don't ask how I discovered this ;-)
-tony
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