I literally still have a Commodore 64 cassette memory drive in a closet. Why...
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So plan B! It occurred to me in my collection of crap I had a dead laptop with a known good battery!
So I tore it apart & put 3 cells into the battery of the computer in question, made sure the contacts were good and clicked it into the machine.
Hallelujah! The charging light came on when I plugged it in! The charging icon showed as well.
... And then it went out 10 seconds later.
And the machine won't run on the battery alone even though I know the cells are charged.
So maybe the cell capacity and voltage are slightly different from the factory cells and the computer's not happy about it. Whatever it is, I'm done messing around with it.
Heads to fleabay... clicks "buy it now".
