Internal Floppy stuck / broken gear (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by waspentalive@lemmy.world to c/vintage_apple@lemmy.world

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Apple IIC+ OH NOES! My internal floppy eject mechanism has failed. I had to remove the little motor assembly that pushes the internal eject lever, and now I push that manually when I want to remove a floppy. (I push the eject button, which is wired to the motherboard, wait a moment, then push the mechanical lever to physically eject the disk) The motor assembly has a gear that has disintegrated.

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[-] waspentalive@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

I finally unplugged the internal floppy and plugged in the BMOW floppy emu instead - it boots the system with a full up prodos image, and then I can have "guest" floppies in the external drive to store programs.

[-] waspentalive@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Since the BMOW is being Slot 5 drive 0, and the external 3.5 is Slot 5 drive 1 - can I put the dual 5.25 drive outside the external drive as Slot 6, drive 0 and 1? would that be valid?

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