VAX 4000-200 Maintenance

[william degnan]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Robert Jarratt <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com
> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cctech [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of william
> > degnan
> > Sent: 19 November 2015 17:28
> > To: cctech
> > Subject: VAX 4000-200 Maintenance
> >
> > Performed maintenance of my VAX 4000-200.
> >
> > Removed NiCad battery
>
>
> My to-do list has me doing the rounds of all my machines to check them all
> for the batteries. I'd like to replace rather than remove though, but that
> could get expensive at about £10-12 pounds per machine for the cordless
> phone battery packs sold by Maplin. Maybe there is a better alternative, I
> should go and take a look.
>
> Regards
>
> Rob
>
>
>
It was a pain to take the M7626 apart, I did think about replacing but
decided I don't mind entering in the date whenever I boot up the system vs.
worrying about the future.

Overall I remove all batteries unless they're required.  For example I
removed all Amiga 2000 batteries, but keep up-to-date with things like IBM
5170 AT's and Compaq's 386-Pentium class systems because they need
batteries to hold their configuration, (what a pain).


-- 
Bill