FD400 drive troubleshooting

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Tuesday 27 November 2007 07:55, Richard A. Cini wrote:
> I also want to check the drive RPM. I found a program for the Model 100 and
> bar code reader which turns it into a stroboscope, but I wanted to validate
> it on a working drive, so I have to pull out a TM100 drive. But, alas, I
> haven't had time for that in the last few days, either. I'm going to try to
> do that today.

Now _that_ is a nifty idea!  I have a couple of those "cue cat" scanners that 
Radio Shack was giving away some time back,  and also recently aquired a 
similar device,  and since I'm not in the habit of going around putting 
barcodes on stuff here I hadn't thought that I had a particular use for them.  
But printing a strobe disc or even a wraparound barcode for rim or shaft 
speed measurement sounds like it might definitely be useful...

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