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From: crmeyer@voodoo.ucsb.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Toasted Model IV
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Date: 29 Oct 89 21:33:33 GMT
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In article <1989Oct28.004411.18613@watcsc.waterloo.edu>, adf@watcsc.waterloo.edu (Andrew Dellano Fernandes) writes...
>
>Do you have _any_ idea where I can get decent mod III disks?  You see, I just
>recently picked up a III at a campus surplus sale the other day.
>...
> The disks are pretty chewed up, and I'm not sure if it is my drives of the 
> disks that are bad.
> 
>Thanks,
>-Andrew. ("adf@watcsc.uwaterloo.edu")

While I am very fond of Model III computers, some of the Tandon Disk drives is
the ones I have owned are very hard to keep in alignment. I has gotten so bad 
that I am parting out my last Mod III instead of fixing the drives again (does
anyone want a spare motherboard :^) If you would like I can send you a disk to 
try out and you can see if it is a problem due to damaged disks or if it is the 
drive. I will warn you that if you put new disk drives in the computer, some 
brands will work and others will not with TRS-DOS (though NEW-DOS seemed
more tollerant).