Tandon TM 100 5 1/4" drives

From: Dwight Elvey <elvey_at_hal.com>
Date: Tue Oct 19 14:03:09 1999

"Bill Sudbrink" <bill_at_chipware.com> wrote:
> > Bill,
> > Let me know if you need a copy of this. Thanks again for the C4P boot
> > disks. The C4P-MF is coming along nicely. The power supply checks out
> > and I'm pulling every socketed chip and reseating it during the
> > cleaning.
> > So far, I've found 5 chips with pins broken down inside the sockets.
> > Fortunately, I was able to remove the pins from the sockets.
> > Now I just need to pick-up some replacement 8T26 bus driver/receivers
> > and then check all of those 2114s on the two 527 Ram boards and I'll
> > be ready to fire this thing up. :)
> > --Doug
> Great to hear. Again, I hope that the disks survived the
> trips through the airport metal detectors and that our
> drives are aligned close enough for them to work. I have
> a fairly large stash of untested 2114s if you can't find
> any locally. Remember, you can always start out with only
> one 527 board to see how things are going.
>
> Bill

Hi Doug
 Watch out for the Jamco 2114's. The last bunch I got were
more than 70% bad. These are old parts that they get from various
sources and they have no way to test them. Of course, they
are glade to replace any that are bad but then you become
their tester, at little cost.
Dwight
Received on Tue Oct 19 1999 - 14:03:09 BST