Outbound Laptop

[aplmak]

Ok so I put this under 68k Powerbook... I couldn't find a section for clone laptop... lol....

I have a question.. So all the articles I read about the "Silicon Disk" in the Outbound used for storage space (I use it as a boot up drive with the System folder) say the information dies within 15 days or some "X" period of time.. a month or so.. Well I have a fresh 3V backup battery in it and I keep the 12V battery always charged.. (I leave it plugged in).. I have yet to loose the data on the Silicon Disk.. It's always there!

So my question is why would they say this??? Especially if you have backup battery power in place at all times?? Essentially if this is true the Silicon Disk should remain intact in this condition no? It makes no sense they advertise this if you have a backup battery and have it always charged... The information should theoretically last as long as there is some power to it with no interruption.

Anyones thought??

Matt

 

[unity]

Thats contrary to what my owners manual says. Where did you come across that? Mine clearly says that as long as there is a power source, power adapter, main battery or backup, the contents stay. If the main battery dies, followed by the backup then contents are lost if not running on adapter.

 

[aplmak]

Look here under details of the Outbound Laptop... I'll also find the other source... And this is the Low End Mac website

http://lowendmac.com/clones/outbound.html

 

[aplmak]

Ahh I can't find it.. but I did see it on another site somewhere... It was a pretty informational site and not a fly by night...

 

[unity]

Ya, thats wrong. And so many vintage Mac sites copy others that bad data percolates around. I am guessing that is how long the battery backup or main will last before it dies. I would think a charged camcorder battery would last longer than 10-25 days if not used, but the owners manual (which does not indicate much time wise when it comes to batteries) says that with the auto-power off (low main battery) one has 24 hours to get power to the unit before the main is totally dead.

 

[unity]

Also the variable of 10 to 25 days sounds more like power issue than an actual limitation in hardware/programing which would have a fixed time.

 

[trag]

In my experience, with a 16MB Silicon Disk, the battery can only maintain the contents for about 1 day.    Now that memory is very old, and I can't remember if I did a careful test, so it might be as long as 3 days, but the battery life was very short when the machine was off, and the Silicon Disk was large.

If you have a large Silicon Disk, leave the Outbound plugged in all the time.  That's really what Outbound recommended any way.   Lead acid batteries often die if they are discharged completely.

As Unity stated, that LEM is wrong.   Also, the OS compatibility is wrong.

On my list of projects which I will never get to, but have nevertheless tried to buy parts for,  has been to build some 30 pin SIMMs with a PLD and SRAM to see if replacing the CMOS RAM with SRAM will lower the power consumption significantly and increase the battery life.