For cleaning and maintaining floppies give shadowtronblog on YouTube a watch.
He lovingly restores various vintage equipment. There are a few vids of him
restoring some floppies, cleaning heads, greasing mechanical bits etc. I think
his TRS80 playlist had a fair bit of that in IIRC.
still no luck there unfortunately, i disabled interleaving and changed the id
to 0 as well, it still does not want to boot. the cable i’m using is straight
through though, i’m using the cable the came with the unit originally. i have
another on the way just in case but since this cable is
On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 8:14 PM h...@dec.dog via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> appreciate the reply, Matt! unfortunately it doesn’t seem that that did
> the trick, another round of feeding it disk images and it still doesn’t
> want to boot.
>
> i tried the block and sector RX50 images
appreciate the reply, Matt! unfortunately it doesn’t seem that that did the
trick, another round of feeding it disk images and it still doesn’t want to
boot.
i tried the block and sector RX50 images on the dbit[.]com archive both as-is
and converted to IBM MFM raw and HxC formats, and the
On 12/01/2023 00:58, h...@dec.dog via cctalk wrote:
> hello cctalk! i have been working for the past few days on a DECmate II with
> what i believe to be an ailing RX50. i have a gotek with updated flashfloppy
> firmware, but for some strange reason i have been completely unable to get
> the
hello cctalk! i have been working for the past few days on a DECmate II with
what i believe to be an ailing RX50. i have a gotek with updated flashfloppy
firmware, but for some strange reason i have been completely unable to get the
DMII to boot a floppy image from it.
i have been trying to
The belts that I use for TU58's work but are a bit on the tight side.
I'd say buy a set of those, and also a set that is is 1.5 times the size
and twice as wide. It's not that big of a deal, technically it may cause
a bit more stress to the sleeve bearings and cause them to wear out in
20
On 1/10/23 15:24, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
> I haven't seen any mention of greaseweazel types of "flux" readers.
> They read the flux changes off of the floppy and then interpret them
> with a separate program.
> Before the greaseweazel, and similar boards, there were the Catweasel
>
