On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 06:00:45 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> (begin quote)
> I can acquire 5.25" floppy drives at flea markets around here. 360K drives
> go from $1 to $5 each and 1.2 MB drives from $5 to $8. I installed a 360K
> floppy drive in my son's 133 Mhz Pentium. Many people on th
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 02:52:55 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Excerpt from Sam Heywood:
> I can acquire 5.25" floppy drives at flea markets around here. 360K drives
> go from $1 to $5 each and 1.2 MB drives from $5 to $8. I installed a 360K
> floppy drive in my son's 133 Mhz Pentium.
> (sn
Excerpt from Sam Heywood:
I can acquire 5.25" floppy drives at flea markets around here. 360K drives
go from $1 to $5 each and 1.2 MB drives from $5 to $8. I installed a 360K
floppy drive in my son's 133 Mhz Pentium.
(snip)
I forgot to ask last night, why did you install a 360K floppy dr
(begin quote)
I can acquire 5.25" floppy drives at flea markets around here. 360K drives
go from $1 to $5 each and 1.2 MB drives from $5 to $8. I installed a 360K
floppy drive in my son's 133 Mhz Pentium. Many people on this list and
also some on the SurvPC list to include myself are st
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> What is PM+? I think of PM = Presentation Manager (in OS/2), but that's
> probably not what you meant.
I think she's referring to Partition Magic?
> Slackware
> seems to have an easy install program, but Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thinks
> "Distri
(begin quote)
I have put off, for more than a year, installing PM+ so I could then
install a pure Linux system along with DOS & dozerware [yech!].
Why?
It's simple: Linux isn't simple.
I want to learn how to make Linux jump through hoops, I can't deny that.
But I also want to
> On Mon, 11 Jun 01 11:57:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Schwartz) wrote:
>> I wonder if anyone knows how one goes about aligning what I assume is
>> the magnetic read head of a floppy drive?
Sam Heywood replied:
> I know a proprietor of a computer repair shop who is a friend of a
> a technician
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 01:47:54 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Naturally it wouldn't be cost-effective to realign a 3.5" 1.44 MB drive, but
> maybe with 5.25" drives, since replacements are difficult or impossible to find.
> My 5.25" drive is no longer working, and I have some data I would l
perform
the critical adjustments and measurements. He says that it is not a
cost-effective proposition to re-align a floppy drive if you can buy a
new replacement for less than $100. Back in the early 1980s a
replacement floppy drive used to cost around $200 or more. I don't
On 12 Jun 01 at 21:43, Howard Schwartz wrote:
>>I have software tools laying around that claim to adjust various
>>floppy drive parameters. But I wonder if anyone knows how one goes
>>about aligning what I assume is the magnetic read head of a floppy
>>drive?
I have aligned a couple of my old Co
Howard Schwartz wrote:
>
> I have software tools laying around that claim to adjust various
> floppy drive parameters. But I wonder if anyone knows how one goes
> about aligning what I assume is the magnetic read head of a floppy
> drive?
>
> By analogy this is one of the larger problems of keep
nd of a
a technician who used to earn a living at re-aligning floppy drives.
He said that the job required extensive training and very expensive
equipment. A very high level of mechanical skill is required to perform
the critical adjustments and measurements. He says that it is not a
cost-effective pro
I have software tools laying around that claim to adjust various
floppy drive parameters. But I wonder if anyone knows how one goes
about aligning what I assume is the magnetic read head of a floppy
drive?
By analogy this is one of the larger problems of keeping good but
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