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. It came with drive mechanisms from different vendors. The Newtronics/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. This is so far not economically repairable. However a clever user by the nickname of Ruuudi on German Forum64 has designed a little bodge PCB to make the half of the head that is still okay to all the work and thus revive an otherwise dead drive. Support me on Patreon: / root42 Support me on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/root42 Support me on PayPal: https://paypal.me/ArneSchmitz Support me on YouTube: / @root42 Music: A Little Wonder by Spino2006 Original thread on Forum64: https://www.forum64.de/index.php?thre... Thread about bodge: https://www.forum64.de/index.php?thre... 0:00 Introduction 6:45 Measurements 12:56 The Bodge Resistor 13:55 Test Setup 16:25 Alignment Check 18:58 Performance Test 20:52 Demo Time 22:25 Conclusion
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