What's wrong with your Apple IIe? On May 10, 4:51 pm, Patrick Miller <phatpatric...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 athttp://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtmland our > netiquette guide is athttp://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com > To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs:http://lowendmac.com/services/
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