on 16/05/04 17:10, Malcolm Cornelius at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > on 16/05/04 15:50, Jeff Greffe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Told you I was new around G3 powerbooks ... >> >> After a lot of searching on the net about my particular machine (pismo) >> I found a little article that states a pismo cannot work without a main >> battery in one of the bay .... since I have no battery and only the AC >> as my power source, I am missing a link ! > > I can't believe that to be true. > > When I build and test machines I almost never have a battery in them. > > I am sure I must have built and run a Pismo without a battery in it, on AC > only.
If I remove the battery from my Pismo, it continues to work on AC... -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] farming n.: [Adelaide University, Australia] What the heads of a disk drive are said to do when they plow little furrows in the magnetic media. Associated with a crash. Typically used as follows: "Oh no, the machine has just crashed; I hope the hard drive hasn't gone farming again." No longer common; modern drives automatically park their heads in a safe zone on power-down, so it takes a real mechanical problem to induce this. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
