{"id":895,"date":"2025-09-18T06:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=895"},"modified":"2025-09-18T06:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:53:15","slug":"double-trouble-c64-and-1541-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=895","title":{"rendered":"Double Trouble: C64 and 1541 Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have two dead Commodore devices here, that a user asked me to repair. A 1541 floppy disk drive and a bread bin C64. The drive&#8217;s motor spins indefinitely and the LEDs don&#8217;t come on. The C64 has a black screen. So let&#8217;s get cracking, and repair both! With the C64 I made a couple of wrong turns, but in the end all turned out well! The 1541 had some other idea in store for me, and turned out to be a bit on the spiritual side\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Double Trouble: C64 and 1541 Repair\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F13VaNT0q2o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have two dead Commodore devices here, that a user asked me to repair. A 1541 floppy disk drive and a bread bin C64. The drive&#8217;s motor spins indefinitely and the LEDs don&#8217;t come on. The C64 has a black screen. So let&#8217;s get cracking, and repair both! With the C64 I made a couple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=895\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Double Trouble: C64 and 1541 Repair&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[196,195,194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}