The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VI.. Stop In!!!

[Running Bear]

Well, the Apple IIc is sick, again. The disk drive again. Before the azimuth alignments were off and had to be reset. It worked fine after that. Today I was testing it for the owner and the drive just quit working, period. I was wondering at this point if it was really the drive. It could be the motherboard. I unplugged the internal disk drive from the motherboard and plugged an external Apple A9M0107 5.25" floppy drive into the internal disk drive port. Whoa, I think I just heard a Apple II series user out there yelling 'You can't do that! It won't work! The cable end doesn't match the port!'. Well, actually you can make it work if you use an Apple Disk II ribbon cable. This requires removing the cover of the A9M0107 external floppy drive so the cables can be changed out, but it will work. And that's exactly what I did. The computer and drive got along great together. I thought about removing the A9M0107 drive from it's case and putting it into the IIc. Did that and test fit it and it's a bit too big. There's no way the IIc's case could be closed. So now I have to find an Apple IIc internal 5.25 floppy drive or an external model of same that I can rip the guts out of. That also requires that I wait until the end of the month when I'll have some $$ in the small budget I have for this hobby.

Other than that I've been watching season one of Star Trek Voyager. Like meeting old friends again.

That's it for today. Time to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.