Careful. You might get shot down by violating one of the forum rules!
Noted! I'll be a bit more careful in the future. I thought if I linked to the auction that would be going too far, since it would then be identifying the seller. Mostly I wanted to do a "first look" post — aside from the couple of problems that it has, I'm actually really pleased with the purchase.
what did you end up dropping down for this?
$325 + $35 for shipping. For a good front bezel and monitor, and a surprise Presto Plus, I'd call that a steal!
seems beat… what is the resolution of the monitor.i am wondering if they mystified the monitor A/b board, that is why those diodes were cooking the snot outta the PCB.
It's just the standard 512×384. Do you think the A/B will be okay to use as is? I mean, I can also just use the A/B from one of my other CCs after I fix them, but if the A/B in this one is going to be fine then I'll just use it. I don't know how I would test it, though, other than just letting it run until it fails.
if you wanna sell that presto plus i know a guy that will give you a pretty penny for it( if he has not already found one). His name on here is zackl.
I'm actually planning on keeping it!
I was pretty stoked when I pulled it out and saw what it was.
In front of the floppy drive, you have got several micro switches (3 if i remember clearly) one of them is there for floppy size, the second one to detect floppy protection and the last one is a floppy detection.So the drive is able to know the size of the floppy (400 k / 800k /1.44 k) if a floppy is protected and if the floppy is present or not.
If one of them got stuck, you can have those kind of troubles.
try to remove the drive and lubricate it, will probably be fine afterwards.
Excellent, thank you! I'll take it apart probably this Sunday and see what I can see. (And post pics, of course.
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