On Thursday, "David B. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
] I have a Compaq Aero myself. Seen some miles & looks every bit of it.
] Also had serious problems with the battery packs. Even sent off & got a
] new one. That stopped working, too.
Being a true SurvPCer, I got mine second hand, for about half of what
it really is worth. (Well, at least a computer shop offered me twice
the amount I spent on it)
] So I simply built a little box out of Radio Shack parts & battery
] holders & such, with a cigarette lighter socket on it. Plug the cig
] lighter adapter into that, and into the machine, and I'm up & running.
] Bit big & clumbsy, but functional. Then I started having problems with
] the display.
I had problems with the display; the little cable broke. It is in the
indent in the plastic above the F3 and F4 keys. For $35 I bought new
(!) a cable to replace it, and fitted it my self (thus saving $200
labour costs). Working mostly right since then, but need a hinge;
gotta prop it up against a wall or box. But got no money now: just
had to buy textbooks for university and my internet bill just got
here. :(
[all prices in Australian Dollars]
] Now I just use it like a compact desktop machine.
So do I mostly. Handy when taking to friend's houses, and I can make
them a virus-free boot disk, etc.
Hey, do you think just putting wires into the correct holes of the
docking socket let me plug an external monitor/keyboard/mouse to it?
I have all these from a 286 that I'm slowly canabalising. I have the
pin-outs in a manual somewhere...
PS: why does your mailer truncate the Subject?
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