Re: Apple IIc

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Michael J. Schï¿œlke" <news0310@mjschuelke.de>
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: George Parada wrote:
:
: > I have just dig up my IIc from a storage and
it appears that all my 5.25 disk are damaged.
:
: Are you sure it's the disks and not the drive,
i.e., have you tested the
: disks in a separate drive?
:
: 5.25" DD disks tend to be quite reliable IME --
I've had most of mine
: stored (dry, protected from dust, at room
temperature) from ca. 1992 to
: 2001, and had failure rates of about 1-2%. So if
all disks appear
: damaged, my first guess would be the drive.
:
: Regards,
: Michael

One of my //c drives had problems first writing,
then reading disks, intermittently. I blamed first
the disks, since it was not always happening. Then
suddenly nothing would write, and shortly after
none
would read either. I was glad to have had the
option
of seeing the drive go bad gradually, thus not
causing
concern that my disks were bad. If the machine has
been
stored for any long period of time, then open it
up and
pull all socketed chips, clean and reseat, then
keyboard
and drive cables should also be reseated. While
it's
open, clean the whole thing. Make sure there is
not a
build-up of dust under the motherboard that may
have
accumulated moisture and might be shorting out a
circuit
or two. Many things can cause a malfunction. These
are
just a few. Also run diags on the memory. Possibly
a
ram is going bad, or has gone bad. Hope you get it
going again.

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