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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: Dead 1050 :-(
- Message-ID: <1992Jul20.011347.3377@wvnvms.wvnet.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 21:48:43 GMT
- References: <1992Jul18.210637.28673@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing
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- In article <1992Jul18.210637.28673@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, crow@coos.dartmouth.edu (Preston F. Crow) writes:
- > I was just in the process of copying my old floppies to my PC's hard drive
- > (SIO2PC is wonderful!), when my 1050 decided to give up. Now it just sits
- > there and turns on it's light occasionally and makes funny noises. I
- > opened it up and it seems that the stepper motor is no longer attached to
- > the read-write heads. Has anyone had any experience with fixing this sort
- > of problem?
- >
- > --PC
- >
- > P.S. In case there were different drive assemblies packages as 1050's,
- > mine is a Tandon TM50.
- >
- > --
- > Looking for exciting/unusual/dynamic .sig quotes...
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- My 1050 gave up on me two weeks ago after 7 years of trouble free service. Not
- wanting to pay $65+ to get it fixed by a repair shop I ordered some chips from
- American T.V. and fixed the prob myself. The chip that went bum was the
- CO10745 1050 CPU chip. Could be the problem with yours.
-
- A.Centofanti
-