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root42<p>Well, my newly repaired Commodore 8050 broke down. Again. Not even 45 years old and already having issues! Drive number 1 does not spin anymore. The drives spin their motors up when you close the drive latch, as to center the disk. This does not even happen. So something is off. A bit of probing on the connector reveals that pin 8 from the top is the latch. <br><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commodore</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/commodorePET" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commodorePET</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/floppydrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floppydrive</span></a></p>
root42<p>Today was another day where I spent some time on debugging my wonky Commodore 8050 floppy drive. I did more cleaning, testing, swapping of mechanisms, and nothing REALLY worked. Apart from the fact that lying on its side the drive 0 would work better, but not perfectly. Doesn't that sound weird? It would suggest a mechanical issue which "fixes" itself by gravity, so to speak. Right?<br>RIGHT?</p><p>WRONG!</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/floppydrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floppydrive</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commodore</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/cbm8050" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cbm8050</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/commodorePET" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commodorePET</span></a></p>
root42<p>Worked up my courage to work on the 8050 again tonight. The video shows a pretty stable, albeit slightly slow drive mech. The center ring should be perfectly stable. It is drifting ever so slightly clockwise. However my potentiometer is already maxed out. This is probably the old motor giving everything. :)<br>I can lower the resistor feeding into the pot a bit. That should give more current to the motor.<br><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commodore</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/commodorePET" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commodorePET</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/commodore8050" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commodore8050</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/floppydrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floppydrive</span></a></p>
root42<p>After I practiced a bit on the broken 1541, I want to get back to my Commodore 8050 dual disk drives. They are massive beasts of steel. Each has a capacity 500KiB per disk side, giving a whopping 2MiB capacity if you swap disk sides.<br><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commodore</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/cbm8050" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cbm8050</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/floppydrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floppydrive</span></a></p>
root42<p>This is a Commodore 1541C ASSY 251854 Rev A mainboard. It is from a parts drive, where I took of the servo controller for a different drive, and where the read/write head is dead (typical Mitsumi).<br><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commodore</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/c1541" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>c1541</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/floppydrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floppydrive</span></a></p>
argv minus one<p>When I was a kid, I didn't know what the “thump thump thump” sound coming from a <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/floppy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floppy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/disk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disk</span></a> drive was.</p><p>It also made a buzzing sound, which I figured was the head moving back and forth, but the thump was a mystery.</p><p>I'm still not sure, but I'm guessing it's the stepper motor moving by a single track. Am I right?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/FloppyDrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FloppyDrive</span></a></p>
IT News<p>FlatMac: Building the 1980’s Apple iPad Concept - The Apple FlatMac was one of those 1980s concepts by designer [Hartmut Esslingers]... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2024/12/07/flatmac-building-the-1980s-apple-ipad-concept/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2024/12/07/flatma</span><span class="invisible">c-building-the-1980s-apple-ipad-concept/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/3dprintedenclosure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3dprintedenclosure</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/reproduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reproduction</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/floppydrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floppydrive</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/machacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>machacks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a></p>
Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)<p>Update: the floppy drive works! I ordered a release on floppy a while ago and I couldn't open the disk on my Mac just now, but my Debian laptop handled it fine</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Floppy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Floppy</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/FloppyDisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FloppyDisk</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/FloppyDrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FloppyDrive</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/RetroTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroTech</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Retro</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/VintageTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageTech</span></a></p>
Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)<p>I found an apple "magic mouse," a floppy drive, and some audio adapter plugs in a bin of stuff that was getting thrown away at work!</p><p>I've been particularly wanting a floppy drive - there are musicians who release stuff on floppy, and I've wanted to get into that (both as a listener and maybe releasing my own stuff on floppy).</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/FloppyDrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FloppyDrive</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/FloppyDisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FloppyDisk</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/RetroTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroTech</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Electronics</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Vintage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vintage</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/VintageTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageTech</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Crafting Ribbon Cables for Retro Hardware - Building a modern computer is something plenty of us have done, and with various t... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2023/06/10/crafting-ribbon-cables-for-retro-hardware/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2023/06/10/crafti</span><span class="invisible">ng-ribbon-cables-for-retro-hardware/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/customization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>customization</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/classichacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classichacks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/floppydrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floppydrive</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/ribboncable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ribboncable</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/diskdrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diskdrive</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/idecable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idecable</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/parallel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>parallel</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/cable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cable</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/tools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tools</span></a></p>
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