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From: Andrew Wiskow on 20 Nov 2006 22:29
Hello!

I just wanted to let everyone know about a new website I put up. I was
chatting with Snogpitch of the Cincinnati Commodore Computer Club this
past Saturday at the #c64friends IRC chat, and I had mentioned that I
have the original Commodore disks of the C64 Micro-Cook Book. He
expressed interest in these, so I decided to post them for everyone to
try out. There was some trouble with the recipe disk at first, but he
clued me into a "trick" using rubbing alcohol to revive an
otherwise unreadable disk.

So anyway, I ZipCoded the disks (had to Six Pack the program disk due
to copy protection), and linked the files with Lynx XVII. So just to
be sure everyone would have everything they need, I posted Zip Code 2,
Lynx XVII, Lynx docs, the C64 Micro-Cook Book program disk, and the C64
Micro-Cook Book recipe disk. All these files can be downloaded at the
following website:

http://www.wiskow.hpg.ig.com.br/

Enjoy! :-)

-Andrew

From: Glenn Holmer on 21 Nov 2006 05:30
Andrew Wiskow wrote:

> There was some trouble with the recipe disk at first, but he
> clued me into a "trick" using rubbing alcohol to revive an
> otherwise unreadable disk.

Could you elaborate on that, please?

--
Glenn Holmer (Q-Link: ShadowM)
http://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/c64.html
From: Snogpitch on 21 Nov 2006 07:38
The 3 hour transcript of this past weekend's chat is located at:

http://www.c64friends.com/

Lots of suggestions were discussed, so you might want to look over the
entire list.


in article lzA8h.8762$6t.934(a)newssvr11.news.prodigy.com, Glenn Holmer at
gholmer(a)ameritech.net wrote on 11/21/06 5:30 AM:

> Andrew Wiskow wrote:
>
>> There was some trouble with the recipe disk at first, but he
>> clued me into a "trick" using rubbing alcohol to revive an
>> otherwise unreadable disk.
>
> Could you elaborate on that, please?

--
Snogpitch

snogpitch(a)prodigy.net
ICQ: 4989342
Webpage: http://pages.prodigy.net/snogpitch/


From: Jerry Kurtz on 21 Nov 2006 09:12

Glenn Holmer wrote:
> Andrew Wiskow wrote:
>
> > There was some trouble with the recipe disk at first, but he
> > clued me into a "trick" using rubbing alcohol to revive an
> > otherwise unreadable disk.
>
> Could you elaborate on that, please?
>
> --
> Glenn Holmer (Q-Link: ShadowM)
> http://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/c64.html


It's actually pretty simple. Get some Isopropyl Alcohol from your
local drug store and some Q*Tips.

If you're not aware, note that the opposite side of the disk is what's
actually used. So, if you're looking at the front of a disk, its the
bottom/back that actually holds the data. If you use both sides of
the disk, then you'll want to clean both sides.

The idea is to rotate the disk inside the sleeve a small portion at a
time while gently swabbing the exposed portion of the disk with a Q*Tip
that has the alcohol on it.

The way I do it: I first twist the disk so that the index hole can be
seen through the index hole window, that way I have a reference point
so that I know when I've completed a revolution of the disk.

I twist it just a little, swab it, twist it a little more, swab some
more, twist a little more, swab some more -- until I've went all the
way around the disk.

Also, you might want to go ahead and clean the read-write head on the
drive too. If you were reading a dirty disk, you may have contaminated
the drive heads, and if the particles left behind on the heads are big
enough, you could end up physically damaging a disk because those
particles could scratch the surface of the disk.

From: Andrew Wiskow on 22 Nov 2006 01:08
Thanks Jerry... You explained it much better than I would have! ;-)

And that's a good tip about using the index hole for a reference point! The
first disk I did it with, I didn't do that, and I wasn't sure if I had gone
around all the way or not... Then I sort of figured out to use the index
hole on my own... :-)

-Andrew


"Jerry Kurtz" <jerrykurtz(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:1164118330.505401.187880(a)e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
> It's actually pretty simple. Get some Isopropyl Alcohol from your
> local drug store and some Q*Tips.
< snip >


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