Milli V

Summers gotten busy - daughters wedding this weekend - my 3rd coming soon - 500 mile bicycle ride in a few weeks have to get ready for - setting up store - etc. looks like it will be mid august before I get back on it full time - I do have it listening to the Adam though

This is the 4th Ex 3 I have had come through and this is the first time I have ever seen it go straight to CV mode when turned on and no amount of reset will bring up smart writer or tape - where do I start looking for problems? Milli

Bottom controller board? Not The one on the drive?

I tried the brute force adjustment - move the stepper motor I'll give this a try

I am stumped. I have a drive I am refurbing - It was very dirty inside and out - I have stripped it down almost completely and cleaned all connectors and parts, cleaned the drive head many times and yet when I do a directory on a known good disk in CPM the head seeks to the right track and then just goes back and forth- eventually giving me a missing block error (also happens when I format a disk or copy to a disk). I tried aligning the head and it made no difference. I have swapped the mech to a known good drive and the issue followed it so it is not the adam controller board (though could be the read write head controller board, I didn't swap that- yet). Anyone have any clues? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxtHJWot1xc&feature=youtu.be

I've seen that one

This is the first motherboard I've seen that doesn't have an eprom or empty socket

I have drive repair kits available if you need to repair a melted encoder wheel: http://retrosystemrescue.com/product/data-drive-encoder-index-wheel-repair-kit/ Milli

Not to shamelessly plug but I sell drives and repair them at http://retrosystemrescue.com

You must be just up the road from me

This is an old thread but a popular one on Google so I thought I would add that I repair the drive wheels and also have a video on how to do it if you want: http://retrosystemrescue.com/product/data-drive-index-wheel-repair/

Is it just me or are the black colecovision controllers made better than the cream adam ones? They seem to be heavier and the joystick seems to have a better feel.

Thanks - I sent you a PM

I will have printers and such available soon on my store: http://retrosystemrescue.com/

I was testing the paypal process and forgot to put it back I did it prolly right after you saw it

I have setup a store for software and hardware instead of using eBay at: http://retrosystemrescue.com/

Where in memory are these mapped?

All mine are cream - well the front is brown - this is the only one I have seen where the bottom 1/2 is brown too

This Adam I am restoring has 4 eproms instead of the 3 roms on the motherboard They say REV 80, 3 are ALF 1, ALF 2, ALF 3 and EOS. I haven't seen one with eproms before

First I have seen

Going through Adams, restoring them for resale and I cam across this one. I have 9 adams here and have sold another 10 or so this year and it is the first one I have seen with a brown case bottom instead of cream. Why is this?

Really? interseting

If you could let me know what it is I would be greatful!

How can I go about putting a DDP image back on to a DDP? It is 256k so wont fit on a disk. Iam assuming that on the pc you split it into 2 images and then on the adam you have a program that reads one image then the other but not sure - am sure there is some way since they got off the adam Bill