Saturday, July 17, 2021

Compaq Portable 386 - 2

CMOS battery replaced.  Now just letting it charge.

Keyboard reassembled (mostly).  I'm still sourcing a cable replacement.  The one that I got had a plug that was too thick and wouldn't fit in the hole correctly.

I was able to pick up some setup disks from a reliable source, but none would read.  I think the 5.25" drive is bad (no surprise).

Someone on eBay 3D printed a 5.25" half-height case and put a CF-to-IDE and OpenFlops into it (with rotary switch and OLED).  So waiting on parts to be able to hook that all up.

But things are moving.  I was able to use the OpenFlops to boot a setup disk image and configure the CMOS - but the battery wasn't set up correctly so it didn't save.


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