That green light on the right, and the “DISK” at the bottom of the screen, mean we’re back in business. (The Cat saves state by dumping its 256k RAM to a single-sided 3.5” disk.)
Today’s project is reinforcing the fracture-prone plastic head rail retaining clips on the Canon MD-3301, a disk drive unfortunately unique to the Canon Cat. Following Cameron’s excellent write-up on using pipe hanger here: https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/05/refurb-weekend-canon-cat.html
Refurb weekend: Canon Cat
It's the Memorial Day holiday weekend and it's time for a little deferred maintenance, especially on those machines I intend to work on more...