At 11:51 PM 5/17/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >Well, a diskette jammed in the PB 5300ce's drive last week,
> >and in addition to a spring or something broken or missing
> >on the eject mechanism, I seem to have knocked the upper
> >head out of alignment, so it's kaput (and the topic is
> >admittedly off-topic as the 5300 is a 1996 product).
http://www.baber.com/drives/floppy_drives/internal_laptop.htm
you'll need to know the manufacturer of the drive and model # to get on
here...
http://www.galaxyhp.com/repstorage.html
DRIEX-30289 PBook 190, 5300 Apple 1.44MB Floppy Drive $135 R180
another mac floppy source
http://www.users.qwest.net/~jgarbacz/laptop.html
1) 190/5300 Floppy Module, $25.00 <- no indication if it has the floppy
drive in it :(
Junkyard Jeff, I've purchased from him before, good prices, good service.
http://www.powerbookguy.com/5300.html#serviceparts
Floppy Drive Mechanism for PowerBook 5300/190 Floppy Module (used) - $49.95
Floppy Drive Mechanism for PowerBook 5300/190 Floppy Module (new) - $79.95
this guy does nothing but powerbook stuff....
http://www.shrevesystems.com/floppydrives.html
129 for a referb, 149 for a new floppy
http://www2.sunrem.com/sun02.w?pt=661-1360&catcode=15520
Received on Sat May 18 2002 - 19:41:34 BST