back ontopic: mac 400k drive.

From: Andrew Gammuto <agammuto_at_konics.com>
Date: Tue Jan 27 00:01:10 1998

Jason-

You missed my point and (obviously) poor attempt at a little humor. I'm not
connected with any authorized repair institution. I'm not sure that's what
you were implying, but it kind of sounded like that. All I was saying was
that if the mechanical parts were bent up or broke, it would be sensible to
replace it. A working 400k spare drive for a Mac would be cheap and
relatvely easy to find. Turns out it was only petrified grease. Great. Now
everybody has learned somethng.

I into classic machines as a hobby and don't try to make a living out of it.
I guess that if I did, I'd be more inclined to avoid buying parts and
repairing everything. I fix everything I can, and replace what I can't.
That's the reason that I subscribe to this list - to save a few bucks, learn
from other people, and swap, buy, or sell hardware to and from other
collectors. I assume that's why most of us are here.




Big CHOMP!

>... You could hose up the head, or send a minute
> electrical charge through your body that could affect your ability to
> reproduce in the future. Unless you are really good with working on tiny
> mechanical parts, save yourself the headache and replace the drive.
^^^^^^^^^^^^

To vent abit...

This reponses is typical of tech-support droid who do not wants
anyone to mess with internal computer parts without giving any tips
or solution besides telling them off to "authorized sites". Compaq
is pretty bad especially when I own years out of date equipment and
needs trival info on two resistors to fix a SLT power brick, I'm
still have not gotten this information yet from anything else.

Without fixing that, I can't sell the SLT 286 to others without
losing that only different type working brick cuz I have SLT 386s/20
also. _at_&#!

No fun to listen this especially when if that drive
is no longer in production and *is* nonstandard. All we only do want
some info and real techies are far fewer and far between common guys
with stuff that can use support help so there should not have a fear
of losing $ to those few techies. I really appreciate if some did
released this design to private makers to keep making older non
standad floppy drives for older machines.

That goes double to: any laptop drives (oh how godawful different
they're are!), Mac drives (Apple destroys their return broken parts
when traded in for credits from their authorized service support
places, thus drives up the cost becomes harder to get by the minute),
and many other different drives.

Jason D.
email: jpero_at_cgo.wave.ca
Pero, Jason D.
Received on Tue Jan 27 1998 - 00:01:10 GMT