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ScuzzBlog: Diaries June 2017

Entry 12th June 2017: Post: 03


Not more rubber bands


Ok You know how I said the top drive belt looked like the Amstrad one, 
well turns out it was. And its way too big for the drive. Anyway I took 
the belt from my busted drive and like magic ...... It didn't work. The 
belt is fine. The cassette appears to work without fault. Rewinds, fast 
forward and kicks into gear when I press the buttons on the Atari.. but 
nah. I get error codes 130 and 140 depending on how it feels. No such 
device. I have tried this on three Ataris. It is the same issue I have 
with the cassette that I repaired. I tried various cassettes and finally 
decided it is one of three things.

01: The cable is suspect. I don't have another.... Its unique to Atari.

02: The cassette unit is broken as is the other. Both being broken ... I 
would have expected a read error or something.

03: All three Atari computers are incompatible with the games or the 
games don't work on these Ataris. Even though they say they are.

I was going to say that all three computers are broken, but the 600 I 
have been using all week without any issue.

I will try to narrow the thing down but given that the error I was 
having was on a cassette drive with its own integral cable connector I 
doubt its the actual cable. Though I could be incredibly unlucky and 
have three ports that are busted I guess.

It is so strange

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