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Repairing the Commodore 1581 floppy disk drive. Part 2

I assumed that the Commodore 1581 was failing because of a bad WD1772 IC (as documented in Part I). So I ordered a WD1772 replacement + the IC socket, I developed some basic desoldering skills, watched some desoldering videos, and also got a cheap desoldering iron from Radio Shack: So, I removed the board from theContinue reading “Repairing the Commodore 1581 floppy disk drive. Part 2”

Repairing the Commodore 1581 floppy disk drive. Part 1

I got my 1581 like one year ago. It worked for 2 or 3 weeks and it stopped working. The stepper and the motor weren’t moving. So I guessed that the “floppy drive” was broken. Quick introduction: the Commodore floppy disk drives have 2 major components: The controller board: which has the 6502, RAM, ROM andContinue reading “Repairing the Commodore 1581 floppy disk drive. Part 1”