Fairlight-CMI

Hi everyone,

I'm having a terrible time getting one of the drives from my IIx 
repaired. The "experienced" repair people I've sent the drive to 
can't seem to do the job properly and I've had to send it back to 
them twice now, much to the irritation of all concerned.

Does anyone know where I can get this thing fixed? Or where I could 
possibly buy another one? One place I saw online was asking $600 for 
one sold "as-is". Insanity. 

The unit is a Qume 242, by the way.

Any and all advice appreciated. As we know, without two working 
drives, I've got an expensive paper-weight on my hands.

Cheers,
Laurence

On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 06:46:40 -0000, "Laurence" <mercybox@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Does anyone know where I can get this thing fixed? Or where I could 
>possibly buy another one? One place I saw online was asking $600 for 
>one sold "as-is". Insanity. 


http://www.i-t-s.com/repair/floppy-repair.html sells them for USD 295.

http://www.cadigital.com/flopdriv.htm for USD 545.


>The unit is a Qume 242, by the way.

Regards,
Harald.

Actually, I.T.S. is the place that I've been having trouble with. 
They seem like nice people but I've had to send my drive to them 
three times now. 

The first time, they told me what was wrong with it and that they had 
it fixed. When I got it, it didn't work. So the next time I actually 
sent it back with my other drive (the working one) in the hopes that 
they could "match" them or something. When I got them back, they 
indicated that they had made another repair to the bad drive and, 
this time, it should work. It didn't. I called I.T.S. and they told 
me, rather brusquely, that they didn't want to keep sending the thing 
back and forth across the country anymore. The manager said that he 
was going to try to just send me another drive. He said he would 
check and see if they had one in stock and, if not, he would locate 
one and call me the next morning. He didn't call. Three days went by 
and I called them. The manager wouldn't come to the phone but I was 
told that he couldn't find a drive and I was given yet another RA 
number to send my drive back again. <sigh> Needless to say, I'm not 
holding out much hope.

Any other ideas?

Cheers,
Laurence



--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Walters <herrdw@p...> 
wrote:
> Laurence,
> 
> Haven¹t tried them, but it might be worth checking in to :
> 
> http://www.i-t-s.com/repair/floppy-repair.html
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/7/03 10:46 PM, "Laurence" <mercybox@y...> wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > I'm having a terrible time getting one of the drives from my IIx
> > repaired. The "experienced" repair people I've sent the drive to
> > can't seem to do the job properly and I've had to send it back to
> > them twice now, much to the irritation of all concerned.
> > 
> > Does anyone know where I can get this thing fixed? Or where I 
could
> > possibly buy another one? One place I saw online was asking $600 
for
> > one sold "as-is". Insanity.
> > 
> > The unit is a Qume 242, by the way.
> > 
> > Any and all advice appreciated. As we know, without two working
> > drives, I've got an expensive paper-weight on my hands.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Laurence
> > 
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[Floppy Drive problems]

> Any other ideas?

Yes. Try to find a university or a big computing center or something like
that. Sometimes they have this kind of stuff still around somewhere or are
about to put it into the junk. I got two floppy drives from the local
university for about 10$ a couple of years ago (used them to repair another
Fairlight). I also got floppy discs from a computing center for very little
money.

Apart from that there's a big register in the US available at newsstands; I
believe it's called "Computer Shopper" ot something like that (I've
forgotten the name, sorry). Maybe that one lists more suppliers. The last
time I checked there were suppliers listed for the most exotic hardware
like the old Xerox computers, Kaypro computers and so on.

-- 
Malte Rogacki gacki@gacki.sax.de
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Hey, Computer Shopper. Now there's a good idea. I guess I'm so used 
to looking on the internet, I sorta forgot that there was actually 
print media out there. Duh!

Thanks for the tip.

Laurence


--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Malte Rogacki <gacki@g...> 
wrote:
> [Floppy Drive problems]
> 
> > Any other ideas?
> 
> Yes. Try to find a university or a big computing center or 
something like
> that. Sometimes they have this kind of stuff still around somewhere 
or are
> about to put it into the junk. I got two floppy drives from the 
local
> university for about 10$ a couple of years ago (used them to repair 
another
> Fairlight). I also got floppy discs from a computing center for 
very little
> money.
> 
> Apart from that there's a big register in the US available at 
newsstands; I
> believe it's called "Computer Shopper" ot something like that (I've
> forgotten the name, sorry). Maybe that one lists more suppliers. 
The last
> time I checked there were suppliers listed for the most exotic 
hardware
> like the old Xerox computers, Kaypro computers and so on.
> 
> -- 
> Malte Rogacki gacki@g...
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
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> "Don't forget to TURN ON THE SYNTHESIZER. Often this is the reason 
why you
>  get no sound out of it." (ARP 2600 Owner's Manual)
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