RE: Micropolis Manuals (Was: Transfer 8050 disks - Catweasel (was: PET2001 Fix))

Hi, all

I thank you all for your interest to my 100TPI problem. I've read with a great interest Herb's site and found lot of interesting stuff on this subject. Certainly, the worst thing that I've discovered is that this kind of drives has only an interest for our small 8050 & 8250 users community and (don't know how numerous now) S100/VG systems users. During last 30 years, those devices have certainly been dropped away in a much more important proportion than other "obsolete" stuffs as completely unusable in other systems (or falsely found as defective if plugged on any PC-like system).

Well, all that to say that we're not helped with this luxuous at the time but now fully exotic disk format. I've found on eBay a "Micropolis part number 1115-VI" that seems really a familly parent with the 1006 (locking mecanisn is different from 8050's one but main motor seems to be identical) ... I'm just asking me if it would be a great oportunity to get at least a "100TPI compatible" electronic board or just a good idea to "drop money by the window" ... it's quite cheap but shippment cost is quite huge.

http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260429582213&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

If anyone had technical details on the 1115 to help me in my decision to take it or to let it ...

Thanks a lot - Regards

Hervé WARIN



Thanks, Bill;

Let me check out some other sources, and if I can't find a good copy of the
one I have then I may get back to you off-list. 

The drives are 1015-IIB and 1016-2 FWIW.

mike
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From: B Degnan[SMTP:billdeg@degnanco.com]
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 10:09 AM
To: cbm-hackers@musoftware.de
Subject: Micropolis Manuals (Was: Transfer 8050 disks - Catweasel (was: PET2001 Fix))

I don't have them in PDF format, just old-fashioned paper.  Is there a 
particular page you need?  What model?
Bill

M H Stein wrote:
> Ah, just the man!
>
> Bill, IIRC Herb got some of his Micropolis manuals from you; I
> wonder if by any chance you have any PDFs yourself?
>
> The drives in my VG systems need a little TLC but for some
> reason the manuals I have are corrupted somehow, and I'm
> hoping to avoid paying Herb his fee...
>
> TIA,
> mike
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>
> ----------
> From: Bill Degnan[SMTP:billdeg@degnanco.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 10:19 PM
> To: cbm-hackers@musoftware.de
> Subject: Re: Transfer 8050 disks - Catweasel (was: PET 2001 Fix)
>
> Here is a good resource on the 100 TPI drives.
> http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/d_micropolis.html
> Bill
>
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