[Coco] Poor drive... (ebay auction)

[Bill Pierce]

Mike, since that happened in 1999, it's all water under the bridge now (pun intended). Luckily, my mobile home was about 1 inch above the water line and nothing in the home got wet or I would've lost everything. I had moved all my guitars, amps, computers, and recording gear into the house just before the roof on the studio collapsed but somehow forgot my Coco which was setting on a keyboard stand in the middle of the room. I think I was distracted by a friend down the road (closer to the river) coming over to ask for help in moving all his stuff to his upstairs as water was already entering his house. His house (in the end) was ceiling deep in water (1st floor) and there were houses closer to and on the river bank that were completely under. I live on a road that leads to the the river and I'm about a half mile from it if that gives any clue as to how high the water was. The last report I heard was 21 feet above high tide (this river is coastal and therefore tidal). The flood came in on high tide.
I stayed until the water was almost too high to leave. I was standing on my front porch in ankle deep water when my friend came from inside (he and his wife had retreated to my house), handed me a beer and popped the top on his and said" last beer...", I replied "it's time to leave."
 

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Craig <mdcmike at sbcglobal.net>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thu, Jan 8, 2015 11:54 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Poor drive... (ebay auction)


Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at ...> writes:

> 
> 
> Mike, the problem isn't mud, but corrosion. The local (and area) 
rivers were massively flooded out of
> bounds, 4 major NC dams were released in fear of collapsing and one 
did collapse. The rivers absorbed
> literally thousands of hog, chicken and turkey farms along with their 
"waste" ponds not even including
> the industries along the river that were flooded. Needless to say, 
this made the river water highly
> acidic. The building where my Cocos were was almost 3 1/2 feet deep in 
water. The high water marks are still
> on the walls today, left as a reminder. Our well water systems were 
affected as well. We had to wait months
> afterward before we could even use our own well water, even to wash 
dishes. Needless to say, the high
> acidity content of the water corroded everything it touched. I have 
one 5.25 drive that looks like a ball of
> corrosion. You can barely make out what it actually is. The Coco 3 
motherboard is wasted. There may be a few
> "usable" parts on it, but very few. Ironicaly, the GIME and the 512k 
upgrade look almost untouched even
> though the sockets they are plugged into are corroded. I'll probably 
check them out sometime when I get
> another Coco 3 to use as a test unit. I wouldn't plug these into my 
current system in fear of blowing
> something on the board.
> There could possibly be some cleaning done, but for the most part, 
most of it is lost. Anything metal
> (including pins on the chips) is covered in corrosion. This is not 
just surface corrosion, but the kind of
> corrosion that is slowly eating through the metal over time.
> 
> Bill Pierce

Yikes! Sorry to hear that Bill. I hope the Gime & 512k upgrade still 
work for ya. 



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