Rummaging through the server room at my job I found a Macintosh portable, and the accompanying case for it.
Cosmetically this thing is nearly mint. I let it sit on a shelf in my office for some time but yesterday I decided to try and fire it up.
I plugged in the AC adaptor, threw out the old 9v battery and attempted to start it. The SCSI disk would spin up, down, up down, etc...
Read up on the topic and noticed that this machine truly requires a good battery to properly function as in it needs the battery's VA to spin up the SCSI disk and power the floppy. So I found some cells to refurbish the battery:
http://www.alliedelec.com/search/produc ... U=70157706
I haven't pulled the trigger just yet on this project, but I'm thinking it may be possible that, given so little use, this battery might be useable as it is.
Next steps: multimeter!
BUT I did find this battery with nearly the same specs that shouldn't be hard to adapt...
http://www.alliedelec.com/search/productdetail.aspx?SKU=70115574#tab=specs
Pics soon
Cosmetically this thing is nearly mint. I let it sit on a shelf in my office for some time but yesterday I decided to try and fire it up.
I plugged in the AC adaptor, threw out the old 9v battery and attempted to start it. The SCSI disk would spin up, down, up down, etc...
Read up on the topic and noticed that this machine truly requires a good battery to properly function as in it needs the battery's VA to spin up the SCSI disk and power the floppy. So I found some cells to refurbish the battery:
http://www.alliedelec.com/search/produc ... U=70157706
I haven't pulled the trigger just yet on this project, but I'm thinking it may be possible that, given so little use, this battery might be useable as it is.
Next steps: multimeter!
BUT I did find this battery with nearly the same specs that shouldn't be hard to adapt...
http://www.alliedelec.com/search/productdetail.aspx?SKU=70115574#tab=specs
Pics soon