[SPARCbook] SPARCbook 3 SCSI Advice

[Mark Wickens]

Hi Liam,

Did you have any joy finding any batteries?

Regards, Mark.

On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 22:52 +0100, Liam wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> I'm pretty sure I've got batteries knocking about. Give me a while, and I'll
> get back to you on that. If you can refurb them, I'm going to be interested
> in that, too! I live in Essex. Where are you?
> 
> Cheers, Liam
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Wickens [mailto:mark at wickensonline.co.uk] 
> Sent: 21 July 2010 00:39
> To: SPARC-based Portable Workstations
> Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] SPARCbook 3 SCSI Advice
> 
> I guess whilst I'm on a roll attempting to break my newly acquired
> SPARCbook 3 I should heed the wisdom of the list archive by not just
> trying to solder some Nicads into the battery compartment - clearly the
> original batteries have some microelectronics in to control charging -
> even I recognise that bypassing this is a *bad idea*.
> 
> Anyone out there in the UK got one or more dead batteries for a
> SPARCbook 3 they'd be able to ship me so I can refurbish it and use it
> in the '3 I have here? 
> 
> BTW, if anyone is interested there are some photos/video of the
> SPARCbook here: http://hecnet.eu/rc2010sc/sparcbook.html
> and here: http://hecnet.eu/rc2010sc/sparcbook2.html
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Mark
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