Kaypro 2000

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Mon Jul 27 23:11:37 1998

On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
> > Drives? Battery Meter? I believe that's a 2000+, my memory is bad, but I
> > remember the 2000+ and I distictly remember there not being a battery meter
> > and only one drive on the 2000.
>
> That matches my memory of the 2000 (from last night). Other interesting
> attributes: the trademark Kaypro brushed aluminum case, and a mobo in
> which *every* chip is socketed, even the cheap TTL logic. That should
> make it easy to work on, but probably also expalins why it's not working
> at present.

That is(/was) fairly typical of Kaypro. A lot of the 8-bit machines were
built that way.
 
> Somebody mentioned the battery as a possible culprit. AFAICT, the battery
> should not affect bootability. For one thing, I couldn't find either a
> CMOS battery or a bridge battery, and the main battery seems to be in
> parallel with the DC input, so the thing should take juice from either.
 
Don't be too sure, Doug. If the NiCads are really hosed, they may drag
down the external power to much. I had a Sharp calculator that acted
like that.
                                                 - don
Received on Mon Jul 27 1998 - 23:11:37 BST

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