UPDATE: RT 6151 is home!

From: jpero_at_pop.cgocable.net <(jpero_at_pop.cgocable.net)>
Date: Sat Oct 17 17:07:35 1998

Gee...

(begins yelling)

GOOD THING I DID NOT *CLOSE* THAT POWER CONTACTS that spews
37A worth of 5V juice!

(stops and panting...)

Whew... There *IS* a serious problem in front end of
that semi-active backplane slot board where on both sides leaked
battery contents trickled in one stream and one area directly under
the battery area appox 1" square that involved one IC.

What is best solution for clean up process?
I know: Vinegar and? The corrison looks minor to me just lot of gunk
and minor oxidized bits. After that, repair all the corroded bits
and do some jumpering as needed.

The case is rusted in many spots in same areas. BTW.

The good news:

All cards are fine! :)

2 pair of 4 port serial cards
1 AT parallel/ serial card
1 MDA/parallel card
1 160MB streaming tape controller card and a external tape drive
(Cipher model 540/F Plus)
1 Extended ESDI controller
1 4MB ECC fast memory.
1 2nd generation processor board (w/o 4MB onboard version)

PSU is choked with brown dust (heavy smoker apprently) 2 fans one of
them is oddball 9V driven by a regulator fed by 12V. Power
supply casing is riveted together (dart! Those hefty rivets!
they're not your common pop rivet type.) I prefer to get that apart
for inspection and cleaning.

1 Keyboard. (looks like exactly like Model M 101 Keys but in fact,
same logic board except that has different 6805 microcontroller and
speaker where regular has the mounting hardware but no speaker).

I have read the RT FAQ and I still have questions: Have anyone
successfully used IDE RT will think of those as MFM 70MB if I
instruct the OS to use this or standard SCSI card with bit of
patching or something to make that work?

Jason D.

PS: Check THOSE stupid batteries in all of your classics and
non-classics often! This is warning and not taken lightly.
email: jpero_at_cgocable.net
Pero, Jason D.
Received on Sat Oct 17 1998 - 17:07:35 BST