took this hard drive out of my IBM PS/2 to measure...

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took this hard drive out of my IBM PS/2 to measure the edge connector and noticed I hadn't cleaned up all the corrosion when I recapped it a while back. oops

Like 11 Nov 2023 at 21:04 | Open on mastodon.social

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kirpich

@tubetime could be new ? 🤷‍♂️

11 Nov 2023 at 21:11 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org

Tube🌞Time

yeah looks like a broken trace. that might explain why the drive doesn't work half the time

11 Nov 2023 at 21:38 | Open on mastodon.social

Tube🌞Time

much better.

11 Nov 2023 at 21:57 | Open on mastodon.social

Jeff Haluska

@tubetime Did you fix the trace or just happy you can't see it any more? 😆

12 Nov 2023 at 4:25 | Open on mastodon.social

Tube🌞Time

@jhaluska turns out it was ok, I just tinned it and moved on

12 Nov 2023 at 7:15 | Open on mastodon.social

vxo

@tubetime what was this oddball interface? I remember seeing a drive with it exactly once - most IBM PS/2's I've laid hands on had a scsi card and drives

13 Nov 2023 at 20:28 | Open on digipres.club

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