a photo love story ...changing the battery in my MPC-60

I had some fun with my new baby tonight. Since i received my new memory battery today i decided to change it myself today. Even though my neck was hurting like hell from sitting in front of the computer all day was confident i could make it

So here we go...

OOopen up and say ahhhhh!!!!



reminds me a bit of my old Commodore 64. The build quality of this thing is amazing though...



a closer look :



first i needed to get rid of the PSU which was in the way



i took one more pic of all the connection to make sure i remeber everything when putting it back together



off goes the PSU, then the top board....



et voila ..the battery



a closer look at that sucker...



the mainboard, about to be moved out



the mainboard is out...finally, getting ready to solder



it was really a pain to unsolder the old battery with my crappy 30 watt soldering iron....but i made it:) heres the new one:



but i managed . i put everything back together...and it worked. this made my day..

cheers everyone...

Marc

i was wondering were ur OS chips were didnt see them...the 60II has them as soon as u open it.

How is that so clean, my Mk1 is real dirty.

I wouldn't even use that, I'd open a museum.

kingrome_1 wrote:i was wondering were ur OS chips were didnt see them...the 60II has them as soon as u open it.

It's in the same spot in the mk1 & mk2 his chips are there and so is the memory expansion & SCSI.

Beautiful pictures.

Wunderschön. Glückwunsch zum Einbau.
Soso bei der Barmenia also

peace

oh his scsi chip ws covering it

I wnt to climb inside and bask in it's glory.

What does the battery control?

monogee wrote:What does the battery control?

The lithium battery backs up the NVRAM ( which holds the system parameters ) when the power is switched off.

Same in the ASQ10 and MPC3000 too.

Rohan.