At 07:51 AM 11/28/00 -0800, Peter wrote:
>Bill,
>
>I have one that I can part with. The floppy drive is bad though, so I
>have been meaning to replace it. Also, it could do with more memory (if
>anyone has extra, please let me know). Does anyone know of a source for
>replacement drives? The original ones seem really fragile as almost all
>that I see have broken heads.
This has been discussed here several times before. The HP double sided
floppy drives are notorious for this. The grease on the mechanism gets
stiff and the drive doesn't open all the way. That causes the top head to
catch on the floppy disks. If you insert a disk with the drive like that, I
can just about guarantee that you'll catch the top head and tear it loose.
If you then try to use a disk in that drive, you'll damage the media on it.
ANYTIME you use a double sided HP floppy drive, you should watch for
problems with it not opening all the way. If you catch the problem in time,
you can remove the drive and clean off the old grease and regrease the
drive and it will be fine. I use alcohol or spray tuner cleaner or
something like that to clean the old grease off and then apply a good
qualtity gun grease that won't get gummy with age. I haven't tried it yet
but I think you can rob a DS floppy drive out of an external HP disk drive
and use it to replace the one in the IPC. External drives like the HP 9122
or 9123 floppy drives or the HP 7957 or 9153 etc combination hard
drive/floppy drives aren't too hard to find in scrap places.
>
>Also, check out my Integral site
>(http://www.coho.org/~pete/IPC/integral.html). It has information about
>the Integral and software to download.
Nice web page. I've been intending to put one up for the IPC and some
the other HP computers but I haven't had the time. I have 8 IPCs at the
moment, they're one of my favorites.
Joe
>
>-Pete
>
>Bill Bradford wrote:
>>
>> I saw Zane's post, and sadly, am not close enough to go pick up
>> his Integral and give him some cash... but I *am* looking for one,
>> if anybody has one that they'll part with ( and I WILL pay a reasonable
>> price). I've wanted one ever since I read the review in PC Magazine so
>> long ago...
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> --
>> Bill Bradford
>> mrbill_at_mrbill.net
>> Austin, TX
>
Received on Tue Nov 28 2000 - 14:20:24 GMT