> On Tuesday, Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
>
> ] Speking of that, in his "new" (latest is perhaps a better word) laptop both
> ] batteries have died away (quite some time ago) and the use for the computer
> ] is now very small since he can just as well use one of the stationary
> ] computers here at home. Now where would I get a hold off batteries for a
> ] "Compaq Contura Aero 4/33C" ? Compaq part number for the battery is 190540-002
> ] I've tried http://www.compaq.com/ but didn't manage to find anything
> ] usefull (more than the fact that the batteries should not work after this
> ] time). If I could get some cheap
> ] batteries (or batteries at all for that matter) I might be able to buy the
> ] computer from my dads work (he never uses it anyway) - but then I would
> ] need to be able to get the stupid machine to boot from floppy
> ] (PCMCIA/PCCard type) is that possible?
>
> I have this exact computer that I am using now. My battery is also
> stuffed, and I was thinking about going to a battery place to
> rejuvenate it. Meanwhile I've just been using the AC adaptor.
>
A few weeks ago my CMOS battery died on me. After doing some
looking around my brother and I just took a few AA batteries, used
some old speaker wire to connect them in parallel, and lots of tape to
hold it all together and just spliced it into the battery connection.
Works fine. If you could find the voltage required you could
probably splice something together (with something more robust
than some AAs I'd hope). Maybe a rechargeable camcorder batter
or something. Just make sure you know what your doing (I'm
thinking I should have put in a resistor of some kind on mine, seeing
as I only needed 3.6volts but 3 AAs in parallel give (3*1.5) 4.5 volts,
oh well).
;`)
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