Oh Man! I forgot ALL about that... I found it wasn't the pins themselves, it was the plastic hinges in the doors. A friend used to keep the broken ones after we'd replace them (I worked for a company that serviced these drives.. Cleaned, re-aligned, repaired. refurbished them...), and refurbish them for his personal drives with metal hinges. I must have somewhere all sorts of patched OS'es for my old Model I. DoubleDOS, TrsDOS, NewDOS 2.1, NewDOS/80, LDOS, VTOS, DosPLUS, the list goes on and on... I used NewDOS/80 for most things, followed by Multi-DOS. I have here a Percom flippy drive. It was a Wangtek mechanism (I think) that had write protect, and sector hole sensors on both sides of the drive, so you could write to both sides of a disk without punching holes. I got rather good at that, and used to sell home-made kits for people to punch their own disks. As well as installing Electric Pencil Lowercase Mods into Model I Keyboards. Micros back then were more like cars. You could customize them heavily. Only now with all these case-mods and cooling options are we getting back into what used to be fun about being a Computer Hobbyist. All things come around in a circle I guess... My Model I was stolen from my apt twice, and I recovered it twice because it was instantly recognizable as mine. A local Model I guru knew my machine and when it came in to him for service by the kid who bought it out of the trunk of a car, he called me and the police. The kid complained he was out his $100.00 and wanted it back from me. But, I felt... You buy stolen equipment, you take your chances... I didn't press charges when I got the machine back though. The first time it was stolen, the guy realized that nobody would buy it from him, it was so custom.. So he tried to ransom it back to me. I said sure... His ransom payment was me, and 5 friends with baseball bats. The police were stunned that I recovered the system twice. Those REALLY were the days... *sigh!* Regards, Al P.S.: though not booted in several years, my Model I (which just turned 24 yo) is sitting a foot away from me on a desk. I should hook it all up and give it a boot for old times sake.