Thee ol' 64

[Chuckie Chuck]

Well, it's not the 64, I pulled out my 128D, tada, but it's been sitting so long, I guess I need to open it and clean the floppy drive heads with a cotton swab.  Dusty/Dirty Storage, seems to have buildup, and probably some of the dust is a bit magnetic, it's doing good if it can pull a directory off of track 18 on most disk.

It's always been one of my more cantankerous drives, but unforunately, on the 128D, it's built into the famed desktop style upgrade from the 64.  When it's properly cleaned and lubed, it has proven to read stuff that my old 1541 could never ever read though (seemed that the 1541 had just a minor misalignment, all to common among the first gen 1541 drives)

1571 is a much better drive as long as it stays clean, the heads slide on the rails properly and demagnetized.  (It seems for vulnerable to outside radio disturbance, which seems amplified in the internal model on the 128D because of the huge power supply internal to a poorly shielded case.)  I'll get it going, always have, just takes a little time to open her up and clean things.

[Chuckie Chuck]

Adn the 128D is alive and well, opened, cleaned, tweaked the head position, just a smidge (seems they were in fact dragging, but not as far as tracking, they were just not getting close enough to to disk to pick up the data)  Must have had some dirt in the mechanism that moves them into position when you close the drive door.