Hey All,
recently acquired a 386is overall pretty good condition. Looks like the bios battery leaked and i removed it. On the battery it indicated 3.6v a varta 3.6v 60mah ni/cd battery. I have a few LIR2032 laying about which are 3.6v, I just tested one with my multimeter and it indicated 3.9v. would that be ok to install in place of the old battery or is that too many volts?
I will try to add pictures but before i go off the deep end just wanted to see what I should or need to do. it has a vga card, a drive card comes with a 5.25 floppy and the 3.25 floppy drive it has an MFM hard drive but i believe that has failed. I can boot into bios and I snagged a keyboard that has a mouse below the spacebar and I was wondering what adapter piece i'd need to get that connected. it looks like a serial port cable.
Essentially I want to add / replace the storage I've seen adapters for ISA to Compact flash? if that is the best option could anyone recommend a brand model?
I snagged a coprocessor since when i booted into the bios it indicated no coprocessor found its a Math cosx which i believe should work i haven't tried it yet.
I'm not new to computers/computing but these computers are when I was a little kid so a lot of it is foreign to me, i can do dos, windows 95 and things like that but in terms of the hardware space i'm a bit foggy or not knowing when it comes to this. i've googled and found some articles for the everex 386is but most seem to have a daughter board where the coprocessor goes while mine is on the main board.
Kind of ranting here so i'll just post pictures. any insight would be appreciated. thank you.
recently acquired a 386is overall pretty good condition. Looks like the bios battery leaked and i removed it. On the battery it indicated 3.6v a varta 3.6v 60mah ni/cd battery. I have a few LIR2032 laying about which are 3.6v, I just tested one with my multimeter and it indicated 3.9v. would that be ok to install in place of the old battery or is that too many volts?
I will try to add pictures but before i go off the deep end just wanted to see what I should or need to do. it has a vga card, a drive card comes with a 5.25 floppy and the 3.25 floppy drive it has an MFM hard drive but i believe that has failed. I can boot into bios and I snagged a keyboard that has a mouse below the spacebar and I was wondering what adapter piece i'd need to get that connected. it looks like a serial port cable.
Essentially I want to add / replace the storage I've seen adapters for ISA to Compact flash? if that is the best option could anyone recommend a brand model?
I snagged a coprocessor since when i booted into the bios it indicated no coprocessor found its a Math cosx which i believe should work i haven't tried it yet.
I'm not new to computers/computing but these computers are when I was a little kid so a lot of it is foreign to me, i can do dos, windows 95 and things like that but in terms of the hardware space i'm a bit foggy or not knowing when it comes to this. i've googled and found some articles for the everex 386is but most seem to have a daughter board where the coprocessor goes while mine is on the main board.
Kind of ranting here so i'll just post pictures. any insight would be appreciated. thank you.