Resurrecting Floppy Drive - Data General 6039 Repair
Added 2025-05-07 22:01:51 +0000 UTCHello!
We're closing in on the end of the first series of Data General videos, this video is solving the last problem preventing the system from being usable. The next one will be about how the system is setup and actually used! But for now I need to tell you how almost loosing one of the two floppy drives was a massive problem, both in the difficulty to solve it, and the weird way that the OS works.
This video is kind of filled with spoilers for the last one because I have to show how I'm accessing the drive but I haven't yet gone over what the OS actually is. So it's a little weird. I'm looking forward to getting deeper into how it all works in the last video because it's a very strange machine and it absolutely feels like it predates the microcomputers so many of us are more used to using.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/zU_TrJ8Y2hU
Comments
Nice!! I hope that REALLY was the issue!!
Markintosh
2025-05-09 14:11:26 +0000 UTC
