Vintage Synth Repair

mishon66@... wrote:

> Well, It may never work but I have been reading the tech notes of a computer nut who managed to do this with an old computer that was only setup with the quick disc or mini floppy disc media drive.
>
> I am looking into it now. If anyone has a unit that needs a replacement floppy drive let me know I may have an answer.
> Floppy drives for Yamaha, EMU, Ensoinq, Alesis, I.V.M, Korg at:
> www.Route66studios.com

Well, get down with your bad self, I say.

I was just contacted earlier today by a guy whose S-10's drive broke, and he's sending me a bunch of sound-bites (he's a DJ, ya see) on QD to convert to wav's and put on a CD-R for him.  I just hope my
S-10 can still read 'em (it still works, but it's damn finicky).  Anyway, I get to keep all the QD's (he said there's 50 of them or so), and he'll also be sending me his S-10, which he won't need
anymore once he has the CD-R.  Like I said, I like the S-10 - my S-550 is much tonier and high-class (and has a better sample library), but the S-10 is great for doing things on the fly, quick and
dirty and lo-fi, and it's a shame that so many have been abandoned just because of a short-sighted media decision.  Incidentally, I read something just a bit ago that seems to suggest that the only
reason for the proliferation of QD's is because they could be mailed at a lower postage rate than 3.5" floppies in Japan!!!

BaM

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