5/21/2023 0 Comments Atari800macxAs I had first expected, the problem was in some of the electrolytic capacitors. Thanks to Stephen on YakYak I was able to get an Atari 1050 schematic and get everything working. After a bit of thinking I'd narrowed the problem down to the main PCB in the 1050. However, there wasn't a short between +5VDC and +12VDC. ![]() Unfortunately, when I tried to power it up as a test, it wouldn't turn on.Ī bit of digging into the problem (and my smelling some rather warm components) led me to find a short between ground and the +5VDC rail and ground and the +12VDC rail. As this drive was the only one ever used with our set of floppy disks it was perfect for imaging the floppy disks. With the purchase of the Atari 800XL my parents also acquired an Atari 1050, which is a 5.25" single-sided dual-density floppy drive. Inside of the Atari 1050 after replacing the electrolytic capacitors.
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