After 2 weeks of anxious waiting ("Jaa has already been sent ... och neee, but not ... .... äääh moment, anyway, went out yesterday ... I think in any case is ....") finally reached my newest protege: a Compaq Contura 3 / 20, as the serial Terminal would be hung on my server.
3 / 20 stands for 386 SX 20 MHz. That should be sufficient for a terminal.
The seller was very nice, but had (as always recently on eBay) or by sending even more of what it actually sold any clue (range:... Notebook No idea Happy bidding).
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| 2 x 50m Painters Tape this package to save from decay. If the content does not even look exactly ... |
came to the fore the first place, this stylish laptop bag :-)
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| * stuffing * |
madness what all fits in.. Therefore, the package had such a äääh .. .. distinctive shape ;-)
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| Tätärätä. feed |
are already After all this times two 720K floppy disks, which I think NEC Multispeed can
:-) Now the big moment: Turn on - and as you see, you see nothing :-(
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| volume seller, he would have actually Work ... |
Therefore, we see that nothing is heard but so much more - namely, a defective hard drive. In the photo it is not evident, but the screen shows some of various error messages, just without a backlight. So
screwdriver and snapped on the merry troubleshooting.
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| 5 screws later: The whole thing without a cover. We ignore the warnings because of any electric shock and contact us immediately to the nearest cover. |
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| cover and keyboard away. Top right the faulty drive in their carriage. Left the (empty) and the CMOS battery (also empty) socket for the coprocessor. |
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| At that time a real piece of cake: a 48MB hard drive from Conner (Seagate later). In their time these disks were famous for their fast access times - I do not want to know so exactly what has once tasted. | |
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| And away with the hard drive. Only makes noise and is totally overrated. |
Now for the screen. A single screw and otherwise only Platiknasen ... well, just Compaq ...
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| least quality under the cover: A Sharp Super Twist LCD with side lighting. Including the inverter, which generates the high voltage for backlight. |
And here's the culprit: The cold cathode lamp for background lighting casts more shadows than light.
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| only a shadow of its own: - / |
So you can still be so stupid and have never handled a laptop, but actually even had this seller may notice that the laptop will not start and you see NOTHING. But well, what the hell, somewhere had passed since a substitute for the lighting. Hard drives I would have still had, but that is hardly worthwhile to start a terminal emulator. So I'll stick with the floppy disk is just the start.
The solution and instructions to replace the cold cathode fluorescent lamp, on the next post.
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