Diagnosing A Mysterious Fault With A Commodore 1541 Disk Drive

Recently [TheRetroChannel] came across an interesting failure mode on a Commodore 1541 5.25″ floppy disk drive, in the form of the activity LED blinking just once after power-up with the driv…

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Repórter Retro 122 - Retrópolis

Este é o Repórter Retro 122, produzido pela A.R.N.O. (Agência Retropolitana de Notícias)! MP3 para ouvir offline Escute no YouTube Do que falamos? 40 anos do dBase III+ 40 anos do Commodore 128D 40 anos do Manifesto Hacker (clique no HACKERMAN pra ler) 50 anos do computador de Jogos de Guerra 90 anos da TDK

Retrópolis - A cidade dos clássicos
Project 3D-printed case for my Commodore 1541-II is mostly done. There was a bit of work needed to get the printed parts to fit nicely, but with a few blobs of UV resin and a file I got there in the end. Might reprint the lid, it's got a crack that I've repaired. It's fine for now tho. Inside is a spare drive mechanism I had lying around and a NOS mainboard from Retro8bitshop. It needs Jiffydos, but I'll make sure it works first! #Commodore #commodore1541 #retrocomputing #3dprinting