Re: Apple IIc

["George Parada" <georgeparada@rogers.com>]

Thanks, I did clean it.
The system boots-up fine and asks "CHECK DISK DRIVE".
I inserted PC disk and it worked on it and then again asked
"CHECK DISK DRIVE".



"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> "Michael J. Sch�lke" <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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