harry
Experienced Member
Is there any one who has had problems with the floppy disc drives scratching the tracks and destroying the much valued disc? My trs 80 model 16b has one 8" drive, and one hard drive fitted as standard, on trying to access the 8"floppy drive, by inserting the disc, the noise was not good, and after seeing what it had done to the disc, I decided to investigate. I dismantled the computer, removed the 8" drive, and dismantled that as well, I was a little nervous taking the reading head off the top moving block, but it was not too much trouble,
on examining both the reading heads it seems the coating has worn away exposing the metal strip across one of the heads, Is there any way of recoating
these heads, or has anyone had this sort of repair done? it would be nice to have the machine working with this drive functioning as it should.
on examining both the reading heads it seems the coating has worn away exposing the metal strip across one of the heads, Is there any way of recoating
these heads, or has anyone had this sort of repair done? it would be nice to have the machine working with this drive functioning as it should.