[DuoList] Is the old gang still around?

[Richard Chisholm Jr]

Good luck on reviving your 280c. Sadly I have no useful troubleshooting
advice to offer you, other than a reminder that old hard drives lubricant
material sometimes gums up, stopping the motor from being able to spin up
the drive due to the friction. This phenomenon was known as 'stiction'. In
some cases, the drive can be coaxed to life by moving it to a warmer
environment, or by the application of proper percussive maintenance. If so,
get all your data off it and replace it ASAP, as it will fail again.

I'm still amazed my Duo 280c runs. It looks like someone took it out of 1994
and put it in a time capsule, complete with maxed RAM (40 MB total), a
charger, a MiniDock and 3.5" disk drive. All it needs is a battery. It still
boots and runs, MacOS 7.1.1. Now, if I only had something productive for it
to do, beyond sitting there looking pretty..

Someday soon I'll probably work  on getting it a battery and replacing the
hard drive with a CompactFlash card, to make it more power efficient,
cooler, and more reliable. I know it's only a matter of time before the hard
drive succumbs to senility; it's already ~15 years old.

I wonder if these machines will be collector's items in a few more years, or
if they will fade into obscurity?


On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:33 AM, sir izaac <sirizaac at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, in fact I'm attempting to revive a Duo 280c. It wants to boot, however
> the harddrive keeps spinning up then down.
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