UPDATE: RT 6151 is home!

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(a)cgocable.net Pero, Jason D.