TRS-80 Model I

Alexandre Souza alexandre-listas at e-secure.com.br
Sun Feb 4 11:51:19 CST 2007


>> Neither did I, for much the same reasons.  And I had to repair quite a
>> few that went out of alignment, and some that had released the magic
>> smoke when someone plugged the drives in "off by one" after they
>> disconnected them to move the machine.

    Not that it was a big problem. I still align apple drives by hand (get a 
full and known good disk, load locksmith 6.0A and ask to read the disk, 
untight the screws of the stepper motor and turn it until it loads 
everything ok (no 'inverse As on the screen)). Inverted cables fried the 
74LS125 in the analog board :o) 




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