Re: UNIDISK 3.5 800K DRIVE: metal shield

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

buggie@ben07.unm.edu (stephen e buggie) writes:
>       I have successfully repaired the 65C02 processor chip in two
>Unidisk 3.5" drives!  They were junk before, but now they WORK!

I take it that you mean replaced rather than repaired :-)

>But I added a socket for the 40-pin processor, and this increases the
>vertical height to such an extent that the metal shielding wont fit.
>The drive casings are held together now by DUCT TAPE ---- looks bad, but
>works okay.

You could either solder the new 65c02 in place like the old one or get
some very low profile sockets (see the sockets most SCSI drives have the
terminator resistors plugged into).
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia