Woo Hoo! Mine has made it to the States finally!
2019-10-17 08:45
ISC NEW YORK NY(USPS), Processed Through Facility -> Your item has been processed through our facility in ISC NEW YORK NY(USPS) at 8:45 am on October 17, 2019.
Teledisk or Anadisk might work. It's pretty hit or miss. There are several versions of teledisk. Try them all, the latest is not always the best for any given hardware configuration.
Is your board populated with the 5 IC Chips? I believe 4 of them are quad analog switches? Most pictures I've seen of the deluxe model have them. Mine just has the switches and several jumpers, no ICs. I guess they figured out later on in production that they didn't need to switch out so many lines. The switches do work this way and appear to be exactly the same switches used on the chipped model, so I don't think it was a user mod.
I've used my MPP Micronet and Deluxe Quintopus in conjunction like that, but now that I think about it, I have no idea if the Micronet provides 5V out or not.
It's not necessarily the frequency with which it happens. The failure mode of this particular design causes over-voltage which can destroy chips, rendering the computer dead. With the others, if they fail, replace the PS and you're back in business.
Or get one of these and a usb to sata cable.....or just upgrade to windows 10 (I know)
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0030D3T16/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Can blame the eyes too. 6 and 8 look a lot alike and our eyes aren't getting any better either. I'm just glad I'm near sighted so I can still see the fine print pretty well. Don't need those large fonts yet!
Don't know about the Micro, but I believe the Sdrive-ARM is still available:
https://atariage.com/forums/topic/262509-sdrive-arm-preorder/?tab=comments#comment-3701745