Month August 2021

floppy drive gears

Eject Motor Gearbox Autopsy

I disassembled the dead external floppy drive that I described in my previous post, and extracted the auto-inject SuperDrive mechanism that was inside. After carefully removing and opening the eject motor assembly, I discovered a gearbox with four plastic gears.…

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Death of an M0131 Floppy Drive

Recently I bought an external 800K Macintosh floppy drive, model M0131, so I could confirm its compatibility with my Yellowstone disk controller card for Apple II computers. The testing didn’t go as planned, and now the drive is dead, but…

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