And of course we also need brand new 6522 VIAs. These are drop in replacements. Which is great news for all #c1541 and #vic20 users (and of course PET users, too!). #retrocomputing
New video:
Zombie Floppy: How To Revive A Broken 1541 Head
The Commodore 1541 floppy drive is a real workhorse, that was used by millions of C64 users.The Mitsumi drive assembly has the annoying fault to have their drive heads fail due to some wires going open inside of the read/write head. A clever user by the nickname of Ruuudi has designed a little bodge PCB to make the dead drive head work again:
Another dead C1541 on our desk. This one was reported as "not working". It was gutted for its 6502 and 6522 VIA chips, but supposedly even with those in place it wasn't working. So let's have a closer look... #commodore#c64#c1541#floppydrive
It turns out that my new multimeter has a relatively decent frequency counter. Good enough to see that there is a clock on the CPU! Question is: how high can it count...? #commodore#c64#c1541#floppydisk