[time-nuts] OT: Wanted desperately - LS-120 disk drive

Chuck Harris cfharris at erols.com
Fri Dec 4 13:50:20 UTC 2009


Floppy drives typically suffer from a couple of common problems, the first is
broken wires in the head.  The second is hardened grease in the moving
parts of the head carriage, and the third is dead electrolytic capacitors.

-Chuck Harris

David C. Partridge wrote:
> Internal 3.5" LS-120 Superdisk floppy drive (ideally with black front, but
> ...).   I'm after one in the standard 3.5" floppy drive size, not laptop.
> 
> The one in my main system just died :-(.  I have a lot of stuff on LS-120
> disks, and while I can read them on a system in another room and network the
> files it is rather a PITA (plus it is probably only a matter of time until
> that one dies too).
> 
> I will remove the dead one and look for any obvious problems, but I'm not
> optimistic.
> 
> I am in the UK not the USA by the way.
> 
> Please respond off-list.
> 
> Dave
> 
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