[HECnet] Personal DECstation 5000/25

My Netra that functions as my router has a dead battery and she still runs fine. More stable than when my router was in a VM, too... ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Ian McLaughlin" <ian at platinum.net> | To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE | Sent: Friday, 1 March, 2013 4:58:53 PM | Subject: Re: [HECnet] Personal DECstation 5000/25 | | | On 2013-03-01, at 1:57 PM, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> | wrote: | | > On 01/03/2013 17:02, Ian McLaughlin wrote: | >> Mark, | >> I've grabbed the image from you - thanks! I look forward to | >> seeing the patches also, once you've got slave online. | >> | >> As with most hardware this age, the clock battery has died. | >> Unfortunately, this module is soldered to the motherboard. The | >> original module is a DS1287. I have a DS12887 spare, but I can't | >> tell if it's compatible without soldering it in. In most cases | >> the DS12887 is a suitable replacement, but I can't find any | >> discussion of anyone trying in a DECstation. Any chance anyone | >> here has tried? | >> | >> I would normally install a socket, but this module lives just | >> underneath the CPU board, and there's not enough clearance to add | >> a socket. Whatever replacement goes in will have to be soldered. | > They never make life easy do they? | > | > I'm guessing my 5000/240 probably needs a new battery by now! | | At least this machine lets me still play. I can change settings, | boot the machine, etc. It just forgets them when I power off. Some | machines will just totally lock up and refuse to operate when the | battery is dead. | | Ian | | -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Experiments http://dev.gimme-sympathy.org Home experiments