I have posted on here before about an old 512k and 128k, this weekend I finally was able to go to Sears and get the correct screw driver and tear in to the 128K.
I got it apart, removed the bottom board and then removed the floppy drive. I just wanted to take the drive apart so I could clean the read/ write head. That was all very easy got it back together and put the disk in that I got from David Colvin (By the way thanks). Well I was super excited that it would work, well it didn't. Then I remembered my father-in-law who gave me the computers, also gave me an external floppy drive. So I took the 128K back apart pulled the floppy drive out, then I took the external apart and compared the 2 for any differences. Come to find out on the top of the drive there is a little black peace of plastic that when you put a disk in it pushes the disk onto the read/ write head. It's triangular with a little round peace of felt glued to it. Well the drive in the 128k was missing that peace of felt. so when the disk was inserted it was not being pushed close enough to the r/w head and was not able to read the disk thus giving me the floppy with a "?" on it when i tried to boot up. Long story short(er) I put the peace of felt on the 128k drive put everything back together and POW!!! Booted up first try! So David if you read this, that stack of 25 disks I have, I stuck one in and formatted it. Would you like me to mail those to you so you can load them up with some software? By the way i just wanted to say thanks to everyone’s comments and ideas it really helped my fix the problem. Now to get the Apple IIe working next.... -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
