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Re: Looking for Stephen Buggie



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

	Bummer!  After I made this post, I realized that I has a spare Mac 
LC-II w/ a 1.44M HDFD.  But, since you guys say it won't work....  I was 
going to ship the unit to Stephen so he could experiment on it.  But you 
guys already have done the same experiments.
	When I get a chance, I'll check ebay for a Mac 800K mechanism.  
Maybe I'll fix the drive myself.  Sorry Stephen.