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  • Re: Apple //c+ Disk Drive Repair

    From Chris Morse@chris@cosmicwolf.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Friday, July 25, 2003 23:39:29
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    On Thu, 15 May 2003 20:44:15 GMT, chris@invalid.com (CHRIS MORSE)
    wrote:

    If fixing myself, is there any way to replace the internal 3.5" drive
    with some Macintosh model drive?

    // CHRIS

    Well, I've searched around for a used Mac SE or mac 800k drives that I
    can use with my Apple //c+. Very little luck.

    Then it dawned on me! I've got a couple of those extern 3.5" A9MO106
    drives here that I was going to use as externals. Surely they are
    compatible!

    All it took was a screw driver and about 20 minutes to disassemble the
    //c+, the //c+'s internal 3.5" drive and the external 3.5" A9MO106
    drive, swap the actual drive mechanisms, re-plug-in everything, and
    screw the //c+ back up. Threw away the bad drive and the A9MO106
    housing.

    Turned the //c+ on, and voila! Boots just fine!

    Now, unfortunately, the only 3.5" bootable disk I had was eaten by the
    bad drive. Wahhh!!!!! (Sound of me whinning like a baby...)

    I've got a couple alternatives though.. I did pick up a Mac Performa
    450 from eBay that I have yet to find a spot for and set up. Along
    with that, I got a brand new Apple //e card from someone on eBay. I'm
    hoping that I can get the Performa running, the //e card running, and
    can install whatever is necessary to get the Performa to read/write
    ProDOS disks. That would be cool, then I could make my own bootable
    disks. I even scarfed a bunch of 800k DS/DD disks from work.

    So since no one else mentioned it that I could recall or see:

    "You can replace the internal 3.5" drive mechanism on an Apple //c+
    with the mechanism inside an extern 3.5" drive model A9MO106. It just
    takes a screw driver and about 20 minutes to do."

    Cheers!
    // CHRIS


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  • From Bill Garber@willy46pa@comcast.net to comp.sys.apple2 on Sunday, July 27, 2003 11:15:03
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2


    "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message news:20030727034640.24610.00000496@mb-m28.aol.com...
    Chris Morse wrote:

    <snip>

    All it took was a screw driver and about 20 minutes to disassemble the >//c+, the //c+'s internal 3.5" drive and the external 3.5" A9MO106
    drive, swap the actual drive mechanisms, re-plug-in everything, and
    screw the //c+ back up. Threw away the bad drive and the A9MO106
    housing.

    <snip>

    I hope you didn't literally throw the housing away. ;-(

    In many parts of the world, drives are much more plentiful than
    the housing. It could be re-fitted with another 800K drive or with
    a 1.4M "Superdisk" and be quite useful with the appropriate
    controller.

    No kidding, I would buy just the housing for $5 easily.

    Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises };-)
    Web Site - http://garberstreet.netfirms.com
    Email - willy46pa@comcast.net



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