@foone I've bought internal and external ones, I think I have one that may just need some caps replacing, but most of them the heads are done.
Notices by Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social), page 4
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 09:25:12 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 -
Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 09:11:08 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 I have bought 5x Iomega ZIP100 drives in 2023, none of them have worked! I've taken a gamble on number six, these things have not stood the test of time, so fingers crossed for this one! 🤞
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2023 05:40:55 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 ISA Soundcard aficionados, any ideas what this one might be? I've searched based on the memory slots and the audio headers, but cannot find an exact match, any ideas or thoughts?
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 05:06:42 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 I also modified my Greaseweazel box:
- Added a USB port (card readers, usb sticks etc.)
- Mounted the primary USB port (computer connection).
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 05:06:42 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 Had a chilled Saturday, mainly writing and reading back floppy images. My method for IBM is writing the image to disk with the Greaseweazel, read back the image, then first open in Winimage, then finally to test is to use the captured image in VirtualBox.
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 06:07:28 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 Success! I've managed to make an external DB25 To Floppy cable that works. I'm just casually booting my 486 Toshiba T1910CS from a 360k 5.25" Floppy! Yes!!!!!
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 03:11:46 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 Having a go at making my own floppy drive head cleaner, I'm going to try a 3.5" version first to see how I get on.
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 03:11:45 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 My floppy has wood! 💾 🪵
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 03:11:45 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 Done!
The most difficult part is the middle, if it's even a mm off centre it's going to wobble and probably tear, going at 300rpm+.
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 03:11:45 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 The magnetic disk inside a 3.5" floppy is around 88mm, the filter paper I have is 90mm. So I need to trim it by 2mm so that it fits inside correctly.
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 01:39:05 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 I've snagged another one of these lovely Mitsubishi MF504C 5.25" 1.2MB Floppy Drives, (MF504C-318MB), it is very similar to my MF504C-310MP, but has a 40/80 track switch on the front which is pretty unusual. I'll post some better photos when it arrives.
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 13:17:23 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 I just wanted to share a few pre-refurb pictures, this thing is beautiful, the top cover has some wear, but after 33 years who doesn't! 😃
Spec:
Acer AnyWhere Luggable PC - 1990
386SX 16Mhz
3MB RAM
Conner 40MB HDD, sounds nice and loud and is moving heads correctly
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Aug-2023 11:47:30 JST Gammitin (Ben) 💾 I'm really, really getting into IBM OS/2 Warp 4, it blows me away that this gem was doing its thing alongside Windows 95, it's a bloody beautiful OS. What better OS to test and format a load of floppies, the built-in disk checker is great! 👍
#OS2