On 19/05/2016 23:10, "Sean Caron" <sca...@diablonet.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 May 2016, Chris Hanson wrote: > >> I haven't booted my Lisa 2/10 in a very long time, not since before a >> cross-country move. >> >> I'm a little worried about it. Last time I looked (a couple years ago) it >> didn't look like any caps had gone though. And at least it doesn't have an >> internal battery to worry about. >> >> It definitely needs a floppy drive recalibration though, if not repair. Now >> that MacFloppyEmu exists (and I have one) I may just not worry about it, and >> run a cable out to use with that instead, so I can install the latest Office >> System as well as install Workshop. >> >> I also need to pull out and boot my NeXT mono slab. >> >> -- Chris >> > > Be sure to check the battery! I saw a Lisa on EEVblog that met a horrible > end. Rotted out more thoroughly than any Amiga I've ever seen with battery > issues. > > It reminds me, I should probably pull my Dad's Lisa 2 out of storage next > time I visit and give it a good looking over. > > I have found NeXT machines to age pretty well. If they don't fire right up > just give the battery a change. I had a panic about my Lisa 2/5 after unearthing one of my Amiga 2000s and discovering the battery damage. Fortunately because I'd had it stored on its side (it fits in a Mac Plus box) the damage was limited to the immediate area around the battery and it was very fixable. That in turn made me attempt to power up my 2/10 but it's never been powered up even though I've had it for over 10 years so I wasn't surprised when I hit the button and got nothing. Fortunately I know someone who's well versed on the PSUs of these things. My NeXT slab also hadn't been powered up for 10 years so I checked that one and all was ok, only it wasn't my slab! I picked up a load of NeXT gear from an ex-employee many years ago including a colour turbo, cube, slab and Elonex SCSI PC running the x86 version of NeXTSTEP (NeXTSTART by then?). At some point I must've accidentally swapped the slabs... -- Adrian/Witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer collection?
