I wonder if a Fuji Instax camera would be a good investment for the museum for crap like this. Then the picture can stay in the machine for posterity. --Jason On 12/04/2017 12:17 PM, William Dudley via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
A couple of suggestions:
Take a photo of the battery in situ before you remove the battery. If you have no "official photographer", use your cell phone camera, and then email the photo to Evan with what the picture is of in the body of the email. This will help later when the battery is to be replaced.
Extra credit: put the batteyr you removed in a zip log baggie and attach it to the computer (or put it inside) so a new battery can be purchased if the computer is ever put back in service.
Bill Dudley
This email is free of malware because I run Linux.
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Jason Perkins via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Even if the batteries are wired in, they should still be clipped out. It's worth the trouble vs. trying to repair it later on.
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Comment to "this is too complicated, too much work, etc." This is the
cost of long-term ownership. The space and time taken by a computer, will be lost if it it self-destructs and that's not discovered until that computer is needed or accessed.
Completely agree, we'll start doing that.
But yet another plea: we need more helpers.
-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085