On 6/9/25 12:59, Miod Vallat via cctalk wrote:
There are no details about the battery in the manual, except that they are made of ``the latest generation of Nickel Cadmium batteries'', where latest means 1992.
Ah HAH! That confirms my suspicions from the original message, that the machine would partially boot once, then never again until left unpowered for a few weeks. I guessed that there was a CMOS battery that was rechargeable, and the several weeks wait allowed that battery to fully discharge. The issue is the partial boot leaves some corrupted data in the battery-backed RAM.
Jon
