Help with Lisa Needed

From: Joe R. <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Wed Jun 9 18:34:56 2004

At 09:51 AM 6/9/04 -0700, you wrote:
>>Does anyone know for sure that if the 4 batteries on the Lisa motherboard
>>are dead, if that will prevent it from powering up? This machine was working
>>about 3 years back when it went into storage. Thanks for any tips.
>
>It shouldn't, I removed the batteries on mine.

  NiCads fail by shorting so old failed NiCads would have a different
effect from no NiCads. The other thing that the owner needs to check for
is if the batteies have leaked and damaged the board.

   BTW what are the NiCads on there for anyway?

     Joe


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