Profile HD

[Charlie Springer <RAM@regnirps.com>]

My old Apple Profile has crapped out. From the sounds, it is the drive. It 
was always great to have ProDOS boot in about an instant with an 8 MHz 
Zipchip and the Profile. It is an early no-serial-number model used 
internally and the interface card thinks it is a 5MB instead of 10. It always 
crashed to the monitor with a PR# startup and I had to C^P or whatever it was 
and off it would go. Just a little head seek peep and everything is loaded! 

 I have not opened it up yet. Anybody know what I'm going to find and if I 
can replace the drive with anything available today? Yipe! I doubt it. I'm in 
the middle of trying to get an OSI Challenger to boot off the 8 inch 
floppies. It did it once then quit. More cleaning I think and an equivalent 
to an 8" head cleaning disk (big heavy Seimens 8" drives).

Cheers,
Charlie Springer