Second Life of MFM Hard Drives - Iambic Telegraph Key

by Andy UU1CC in Circuits > Reuse

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Second Life of MFM Hard Drives - Iambic Telegraph Key

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Do you remember a MFM hard drives? Not too fast, but very large - 20 Mb in the 5 inch rack, it was a something special! Times gone and those beautiful drives decided to rest in peace. In peace? No way!

One note - if you don't know wha-da-heck is Iambic Key, visit Wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph_key As for me, this key is my way to communicate World. Our Old Good World.

Extracting Heads From Dead Drives

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There are best-of-the-best bearings inside. Because it is.

Cut Off Fag End

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Breadboarding and Making the Plastic Base.

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Breadboarding - making something using wife's bread board en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breadboard. In my case board was slightly rustic.

Assembling and Assembled Views

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Comunicating Using New Keyer

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