On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Sipke de Wal wrote:
Never operate the TI59 without the nicads! when
the machine is turned on the excess voltage
will be dumpt into them so the -vbat will be kept at
-3.7 Volts! To operate it without nicads might
toast the machine !!!!
s/might/will
Did it by accident once. Luckily, about a month later, a TI59 (the
previous one was a 58) showed up at a Boeing company auction for $5 on the
print cradle. Nicad in the print cradle was toast though.
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