What is that item? Looks like a piece of laced (p)leather-craft from a children's summer camp project..
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Vlad Stamate <vlad.stam...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I recently got a very nice HP 9816 with a 9121 drive unit from Earl > Baugh (thanks Earl!). The computer worked fine but the primary drive > of the 9121 refused to read the disk and made a continuous beating > noise. After I cleaned it on the outside I opened it to see what is > wrong with it. And I found this piece inside the drive itself: > http://imgur.com/dlqOexX (floppy added for size comparison). > > After carefully removing it, the drive actually worked like a charm > and I was able to boot from it. I was pleasantly impressed that the > drive head has not been damaged bumping in the leather piece all the > time. I am not sure how that got there, I assume a child pushed it in > by mistake? I am not sure what it is either, the leather triangles > sewn together by hand it seem. > > What other strange pieces did you find when you opened up classic > computers? > > Vlad. >
