Well, that took a bad turn.
I pulled the floppy controller chip. It was pretty tarnished. According to people, the pins are silver plated and, therefore, tarnish.
So I pulled the chip and used a soft wire brush and removed the tarnish.
But still no boot.
Someone else said that I needed to replace the socket. Another use for the Hakko desoldering tool I got for my birthday!
The socket replacement went smooth. No problems. I had an extra socket that fit the floppy controller chip perfectly.
But I got it assembled enough to test and now it doesn't pass the self-test.
I checked everything over. No solder bridges. No bad solder points that I can see.
Perhaps the floppy controller chip is really bad and now the system can see it. Cross my fingers. I get the replacement chips later this week.
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