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- From: elphantas@aol.com (El Phantas)
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- Subject: Re: 1581 jammed power switch
- Date: 7 Mar 1996 20:00:23 -0500
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- In article <4hieop$rc5@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>, pancake@mail.utexas.edu
- (Christopher Daniello) writes:
-
- >This really irritated me: I'm setting up my old commodore 128 system and
- for
- >some reason the 1581 power switch is physically jammed so I can't push it
- up
- >into the on position. What would cause such a thing to happen? Push as
- hard
- >as I can and I can't get the thing to budge. Really bummed me out
- because I
- >was planning on transferring most of my commie stuff to the smaller, more
-
- >sturdy discs.
-
- I've had that happen a couple of times actually. Not with Disk drives,
- but once with a C64 and once with a printer. The power switch obviously
- fell apart inside and is now jammed. There's really no way to make it
- work again, except get the switch replaced.
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