Re: PET 2001 internal tape drive

Den Fri, 9 Feb 2018 13:10:11 +0100 skrev Francesco Messineo
<francesco.messineo@gmail.com>:
> Hi Again,
> 
> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 8:34 PM, Mia Magnusson <mia@plea.se> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I have a separate datasette of the same kind that newer PET 2001
> > has.
> >
> > Looking at the connector, from one side to the other, the colours
> > are blue, brown, white, red, green, black+orange. So you are
> > correct.
> >
> > Btw the colours are the same on my "VIC-20-coloured" datasette
> > that's almost identical, except for colour and that it also has a
> > counter.
> 
> I soldered back the orange wire, and the tape drive now works in the
> sense that it starts, read/write, kind of...
> It could need a head azimuth adjustment, but I can't find the hole for
> the little screw.
> Does anyone know where it's supposed to be?
> Is such a tape drive supposed to read its own written tapes even if
> the azimuth is wrong?

Unless it's misadjusted so badly that the tape have problems passing
through the head, you should be able to save and then verify/load back
even though the tape won't be compatible with a correctly aligned head.

If that doesen't work I'd try cleaning the heads. I use isopropyl
alcohol. Make sure that the cleaning fluid has time to dry off before
you try a tape as I think it can dissolve the surface of a tape,
damaging the tape and clogging the heads with tape residue.

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