Casey Bralla via plug on 22 Oct 2025 13:58:51 -0700


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[PLUG] Broken Ribbon Cable

I bought a 30 year old laptop for my collection. https://www.nerdworld.org/Content/Computer%20Museum/Computer%20Museum.html. Unfortunately, when taking it apart, I ripped the delicate orange ribbon cable on the floppy drive.  The laptop will boot, but the hard drive on this old baby is long dead, so I need to have a working floppy. 

All the AI's say a repair is possible, but Oh Geez, what a task.
Has anybody ever tried to actually do this?  My 68 year old hands aren't especially steady.
The Laptop is a CompuAdd, which was not especially popular, so the chance of finding replacement parts is asymptotically zero. 

Any suggestions?
BTW, this laptop has an IDE disk that is soldered to the motherboard.  Yipes!  Might have been good for physically durability, but pretty well screws any repair or upgrade possibility.

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