Update on HHC Basics

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "Roger Merchberger" <zmerch at 30below.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 9:48 AM


> Well, I have good news and I have good news... (and just a little bad 
> news)...
>
> I have now erased a bajangle of eproms, I have quite a few Basics burned 
> and lots of spare blank carts, so they'll hit the mail soon. I have 
> tomorrow off, so I'll prolly pack/address/ship then. If not, definitely 
> over the weekend. Tuesday nite was going to be my "Pack'em up nite" but 
> the wifeypoo got a line on a good job, so it was transformed into "Rewrite 
> the Resume nite."[1] Wednesdays are a PITA for me (to work at 7:30am, get 
> out at 8:30 pm or later) so I rarely feel like doing anything after work. 
> Of course, my LCD monitor "went blank" Tuesday nite, so I had to figure 
> out the cause of that last nite... I was a grumpy dude by 11:00 pm. ;-) 
> Turns out the LCD monitor died... :-( I grabbed my wife's monitor and am 
> using that temporarily until I can get a new one in.
>
> I did test a basic cart in my HHC, and it seems to work fine, *except* I 
> think my RAM's a bit wonky, as once I create a program, then exit BASIC, 
> it thinks I have 2 bytes of free memory left. Weird. It might also be a 
> limitation as to *which slot* the chip goes into - I didn't diddle with 
> that. Or... I don't believe that the internal batteries are functioning, 
> so it might be a power problem causing the wonkeyness... Anyway, the Basic 
> itself comes up and it takes immediate commands just fine, and I've 
> entered in 2-3 line programs that run fine until you exit basic, then it 
> thinks there's no free memory left. Like I said, weird.
>
> Anyway, I'll send out individual emails tomorrow with the status of each 
> order, but I wanted to let everyone know I didn't forget 'em!
>
> ;-)
>
> Laterz,
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger
>
> [1] After a 10-year hiatus from the workforce, it was quite a job!
>
> --
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger   | Anarchy doesn't scale well. -- Me
> zmerch at 30below.com.         |
> SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers

I used to repair HHC's and you should not leave dead batteries in them.  The 
batteries will out-gas and destroy the computer via corrosion.

The batteries are just AA ni-cads and you can build your own pack.  It is 
easiest if you buy an off the shelf pack that is similar and cut off the 
plastic jacket, add however many cells you need and cover the ends with 
tape.

If you have an HHC sitting around doing nothing open it up and remove the 
batteries.

This applies to the printer also (the printer uses 2, 2 cell packs).


Randy
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