elliot@alfred.UUCP (Elliot Dierksen) (12/13/89)
Well, it's now a week after installing the Atasi 3085 I got from Main Source
Electronics and everything is going just fine. There were 2 very minor
difficulties in the upgrade:
1) I needed to leave the piece of cardboard from my old drive underneath the
new drive. At one point, something must have caused a temporary (but
non-damaging) short. During this time, computer would do nothing at all.
2) This drive has what seems to be a decent shock mounting. There are posts
going up from each corner which are attached to the drive itself by screws
with big rubber washers (for padding I suppose). It went O.K., but these
posts made it a very snug fit getting the 3B1 case over top of the drive.
Closing that point, The drive seems to be good and works just fine with a
Unix-PC and for $425 it was a heck of a deal.
(Standard disclaimer: I have no connection with Main Source other than as a
satisfied customer)
Also just finished mangling... I mean modifying my 512K RAM card as per the
instructions for John Milton in HwNote06 (Thanx John!!). That was also
fairly uneventful. Still a bit of a novice with an iron (soldering), I
didn't hit me immediately that the solder needed to be removed on the bottom
of the board. Once my brain returned to earth, everything else went fine.
Those pins are a real bear to get out of those sockets!!!
I hope my experiences will help someone else avoid some difficulty down the
road somewhere...
EBD
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"What's another word for Thesaurus??" -- Steven Wrightjbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton) (12/16/89)
In article <564@alfred.UUCP> elliot@alfred.UUCP (Elliot Dierksen) writes: [...] >Those pins are a real bear to get out of those sockets!!! One VERY important note I may not have made clear in HwNote06: --- 10. Solder suck pins 30 and 29, break them loose and pull them up a little. This can be tricky since the pin is the spring stuff the connector contacts are made out of. --- and HwNote06.01: --- 18. Solder suck pins 30 and 29 on the connector. Break them loose and pull them all the way out of the holes. This can be tricky since the pin is the spring stuff the connector contacts are made out of. It takes a surprisingly large amount of force to get them out. --- Becuase the connector pins are made out of spring steel, one must follow these instructions VERY closely. Solder suck (or solder wick) the pins! DO NOT TRY TO PRY THE PINS OUT WITH THE SOLDERING IRON ON THEM!! You could flip solder into yours or an on-lookers eyes. Just a little holiday safety note. John -- John Bly Milton IV, jbm@uncle.UUCP, n8emr!uncle!jbm@osu-cis.cis.ohio-state.edu (614) h:252-8544, w:469-1990; N8KSN, AMPR: 44.70.0.52; Don't FLAME, inform!