On the 100, do you have the memory switch off? did you try a cold boot? I've heard they work without the battery.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 1:00 PM Joshua O'Keefe <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 14, 2022, at 12:28 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hope everyone is enjoying their summer :-) > > It's been a mixed bag for me so far but I've managed some victories on the > retrocomputing front. On a long stay away from home I managed to score a > fully operational (but not recapped / re-batteried) Mac 512Ke for about a > quarter of the going price. I also scored a PowerBook Duo 280c with damn > near every accessory ever made and an extremely hard to find memory > upgrade. It ought to be here next week. > > My REXCPM arrived a while back but the M100 I planned to put it into > suffered something unexpected when I diked out the battery: it paints the > menu and clock and then hangs. It didn't do that before my hackneyed > surgery so I assume I did some damage. Or does the 100 not operate > properly with 0V across the internal battery? If that's not it I might > need to poll the list for someone taking repair work. > > I could put the REXCPM into my 102 but I actually use the 102 pretty > regularly for actual tasks and am loathe to disturb it from its ideal state. > > Other projects still pending: my MRC C64-clone ITX case arrived, awaiting > a build of indeterminate nature. The PowerBook G4 1.67 needs attention, > too. At last check, rummaging around the internals to upgrade it caused > the nearly irreplaceable ribbon from the upper case to become unreliable > and it's gone through two different front loading optical drives already. > I'd hoped to turn that into a MorphOS machine. > > Lots of toys. Very little free time. > > >
