How to fix a Microdrive.

[Joseph S Wisniewski]

... printable CF cards ?

Well, the 2200 can print on anything up to 2.2mm thick. There's a carrier so that it can print on CDs. With the right carrier, it really could print on CF cards.

Not sure why one would want to....



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Detroit Pistons - Number 1 in the NBA!
Forty-two and nine, we're gonna stomp some Texan!

Ciao!

Joe

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[Joseph S Wisniewski]

Here's one for you...I was shooting a wedding and just finished
filling a MicroDrive with beautiful images when, as I was changing
the drives for a fresh one, I dropped it onto concrete from about 5
feet up. Not only did I completely collapse inside from fear but I
was thinking how I was going to reshoot everything in time. After
lots of praying I inserted the drive back into my D1x and hit the
review button. EVERY SHOT was there unblemished and ready for
download. Is that unbelieveable or what??? It is a true story
however. The drive was a Hitachi not a IBM for your knowledge.

I can believe it. Things like that happen constantly. A man falls 12,000 feet from an airplane and lives. One falls in his own home on a carpeted floor, and breaks his neck.

It's all physics. Your drive may have hit on an edge, so that the shock was parallel to the platter surfaces, and just rippled through them. And the case could compress and flex and cut the G load on the platters.

If a drive hits flat, there's no compression, and the force is exerted by the hub perpendicular to the platters, they flex, and if they collide, you get pixie dust...

--
Detroit Reds Wings - Original Six Hockey with Motown Style!
Thirty-nine, thirteen, and five. Watch your back, Dallas!

Detroit Pistons - Number 1 in the NBA!
Forty-two and nine, we're gonna stomp some Texan!

Ciao!

Joe

http://www.swissarmyfork.com

 

[Skidpan]

I want to get married tho...

Wives are just like microdrives.

If they have a problem you usually can't fix them.

 

[Osku]

The OP did open the Microdrive, that was not at all clever. Even harddrives suffer easily from dust if opened, so a clean roo is needed. But if the electronics board at the bottom was broken in the wash, and everything else seemd ok (from the outside), I would have thested it with an othe PCB. It is after all a hard drive, and that is about the only easy thing to fix in a hard drive, change the PCB (to a similar one, has to have same firmware and revision, makes it harder I know...)

Hey, I broke an optical encoder disk once. Got one single piece of
about 1/3 of the glass disk. Actually super glued it, put it back
and it's still working.
It's called luck.

Joe

--
Osku

 

[linuxworks]

I want to get married tho...

Wives are just like microdrives.

If they have a problem you usually can't fix them.

oh, I thought you were going to go in the 'but soon they're all whining and eventually a head crash occurs' direction with this analogy

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[Manikin]

Skidpan wrote:

Wives are just like microdrives.
If they have a problem you usually can't fix them.

I'd concur if I had one!

... and just to squash the rumours.. I'm straight! I have children to prove it!

 

[Skidpan]

I was referring to the original Brownie. No flash, no moving parts.
Well, yeah it did have that shutter, which technocrats like you
might refer to as a "moving part," and of course the button which
activated the trained mouse that lived inside, who in turn cranked
open the shutter - but that hardly counts...

was something like that.

I still have some of the negatives, Can't remember what the film number was but they were pretty large compared to 35mm negatives. Could it be 126 ?

Anyway, I don't know what happened to it. I guess the aliens must have taken it back because I didn't use it enough. I must have been about ten when I used this camera.

 

[Chato]

I was referring to the original Brownie. No flash, no moving parts.
Well, yeah it did have that shutter, which technocrats like you
might refer to as a "moving part," and of course the button which
activated the trained mouse that lived inside, who in turn cranked
open the shutter - but that hardly counts...

was something like that.

I still have some of the negatives, Can't remember what the film
number was but they were pretty large compared to 35mm negatives.
Could it be 126 ?

Anyway, I don't know what happened to it. I guess the aliens must
have taken it back because I didn't use it enough. I must have
been about ten when I used this camera.

I think I was nine. Moreover, it never broke, I never gave it away, it just vanished into another dimension!

Dave

 

[Jay Turberville]

If a drive hits flat, there's no compression, and the force is
exerted by the hub perpendicular to the platters, they flex, and if
they collide, you get pixie dust...

Or is that pixel dust?

--
Jay Turberville
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[bob elkind]

... consuming too much power.

I think you found a solution to the problem !

 

[Barrie Davis]

Here, copy this disk.

Secretary comes back with...

A Xerox copy of the disk

Yeah. Some "secretaries" do things like that.

Have you ever had to explain to the client's secretary why STAPLING the negative to the print order was a bad idea........... ??

(I think you can tell I'm not kidding)
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Regards,
Baz

 

[Kenn Hwang43495]

Right after she used white-out on the MS word document, right?

 

[Joseph S Wisniewski]

Right after she used white-out on the MS word document, right?

Actually, it was a word processing program called "LEWP", the Leading Edge Word Processor, back in 1985, but yes, I've seen a secretary use correction tape and a typewriter to make changes to a word processed document.

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Detroit Reds Wings - Original Six Hockey with Motown Style!
Thirty-nine, thirteen, and five. Watch your back, Dallas!

Detroit Pistons - Number 1 in the NBA!
Forty-six and nine, we're gonna stomp some Texan!

Ciao!

Joe

http://www.swissarmyfork.com

 

[Joseph S Wisniewski]

Have you ever had to explain to the client's secretary why STAPLING
the negative to the print order was a bad idea........... ??

(I think you can tell I'm not kidding)

Oh, I know you're not kidding. I've seen negatives and transparencies stapled, taped, and on one occasion the client did their own "composite" by cutting the negatives and gluing bits and pieces together with some glop that was meant for editing movie film.

--
Detroit Reds Wings - Original Six Hockey with Motown Style!
Thirty-nine, thirteen, and five. Watch your back, Dallas!

Detroit Pistons - Number 1 in the NBA!
Forty-six and nine, we're gonna stomp some Texan!

Ciao!

Joe

http://www.swissarmyfork.com

 

[Zolton Cohen]

I don't know about your Brownie, but mine did a heckuva job...

Zolton

 

[Jay Turberville]

Actually, it was a word processing program called "LEWP", the
Leading Edge Word Processor, back in 1985, but yes, I've seen a
secretary use correction tape and a typewriter to make changes to a
word processed document.

Ya know. I've got my Leading Edge Model D PC sitting in the closet. complete with the LEWP discs and equipped with 640k, a 20MB harddrive and hotrodded with an NEC V20 CPU. I know it was working about 7 or 8 years ago, but I haven't fired it up since then.

This was one of the first relatively affordable PC compatibles that was widely available and had a high level of PC compatibility.

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Jay Turberville
http://www.jayandwanda.com