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Here are some early examples of tokens used by just Bell Fruit alone and this is not all of them, The last one on the bottom right is what they called the pre decimal 5 shilling or 25p Gold Award.

Always worth a try! donor has to be exact model and made in the same place as the original, good luck! I had a bad hard drive on a erio mk4 pc, took me a good while to piece that back together so I know your pain!

That’s Ram corruption. To clear with electrician software, power on with the test switch pressed and it will make a noise to indicate the RAM has been cleared. anything can cause that but common issue are if the flo tubes are on the way out. It might not even be the flo tube for that machine, it could be another machine that can cause it.

Few options I guess : 1) Not recommended but I've done it before with success. I've actually had a drive that wouldn't spin up. I removed the lid from the drive, and with it powered up, manually spun the motor. This freed it off, and once the drive was reassembled, I was able to retrieve all the data. I guess technically this should only be attempted in a 'clean room' environment. When I did it it wasn't done in a remotely clean environment and still worked with 100% success. 2) If it's the controller board mounted on the drive that is at fault, rather than the motor or the heads, then you might be able to just find a matching drive and swap the controller board over. How easy that'll be varies from drive to drive. Some have hot-glued ribbon cables, some don't have any glue and they are pretty easy. In any case I wish you the best of luck. Might be worth checking the basics first, try another drive and make sure that spins up to remove the potential of knackered cables, iffy 12V supply, e.t.c.

Thanks for that, the HD is stone dead, no clucking or whirring not sure that would help