Re: Looking for Stephen Buggie

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Wayne Stewart waynes@intergate.bc.ca wrote:

>Dennis Jenkins wrote:
>
>>         I am looking for the email address of Stephen Buggie, the answerer
>of
>> part 15 of the Apple II floppy disk drive FAQ.  Stephen, if you are out
>> there, please send me an email.  I may have a dead 3.5" unidisk for you
>> to experiment on.  Thanks!
>
>That part of the FAQ is sort of dated. A number of people have repaired 3.5"
>UniDisks by replacing the mechanism with an 800k one from a Mac. I've done it
>a
>couple times myself,. it's a very easy repair. Using a 1.44mb mechanism
>doesn't
>work though, lots of I/O errors but I had to try that just out of curiosity

Hmmm.  I thought that replacement made it a "superdrive".

-michael

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