On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 6:22 PM, William Levak <wlevak@sdf.org> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Feb 2017, Francesco Messineo wrote: > >> the gold plating is scratched, but cleaning the contact made a good >> improvement so I won't apply tin on it for now. Both sides are >> connected together but the original C2N connector has contacts only on >> the top side (you wonder why Commodore did save even on this aspect!) >> and the contacts appear to be just tin plated or worse nickel plated. >> Next step (if I really want to throw away my time) is trying to align >> both my C2N to read reliably the same tapes. So far, tapes written by >> one appear empty on the other. > > > The original C2N had the contacts on the other side. They are also not very > reliable. On some of our early C2Ns we replaced the connector with a > standard card edge connector, and used a shell from a "D" connector. This > gave us the equivalent of the connector that Commodore used on later tape > drives. > > There are adjusting screws on the head. You need a commercially recorded > tape and an oscilloscope to do the alignment. Without these you can do it > by trial and error. If can get a tape from someone, you can just adjust the > head so that it reads that tape. I've actually aligned the other tape drive pretty well with a program I've found for the C64. It obviously can see only the digital version of the signal, but the alignment with one of my old tapes was successfull. It can read now very reliably those tapes (and the ones written with my other C2N too). That will allow me to save some PET programs until I find a better storage solution for it. Frank Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2017-02-10 18:02:32
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