Bodryn

My rechargeable battery lesson: I needed another rechargeable battery for an older DOS laptop so I went to Batteries Plus, paid some $138 for the battery, went back, put it in the computer, it worked, so I was satisfied. A few days later I was going to do some serious stuff with it, so I turned it on, whoops, the battery would no longer take a charge! See, these batteries are no longer made, I was just sold a "reconditioned" one. I couldn't return it right away, so, $138 down the drain. And Toshiba laptops seem to be designed so they won't run without a good battery in place.

I do want to use these older laptop computers - they're well made, and have excellent keyboards. They could be excellent candidates for something like FreeDOS or an older Linux that takes little room. So I plan to use a little electronics skill to jury rig a battery system to duplicate the battery. Not so convenient maybe, but it ought to work.

I'd say that when you buy a laptop, be sure it will run even without a battery. None of mine do, but I understand some will.

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Bodryn
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Sidebyte

Yes, I can run my older Compaq and HP laptops with the battery completely removed.

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