m_thompson
Veteran Member
The Rhode Island Computer Museum just received a Lisa 2/5, a Lisa 2/10, and a NeXT Cube Turbo as donations.
The batteries on the on the 2/5 leaked everywhere. There is green corrosion on all of the connectors on the backplane, gold fingers, and it even ate through some of the traces on the I/O board. We removed the batteries and washed off the worst of it. We will give everything a good scrub with dilute vinegar and set this one aside for later restoration. We received two 5 MB Profile drives with the 2/10. Exploring the content of those drives will be done next week.
The 2/10 is in great condition because it never had batteries on the I/O board. We removed the boards and power supply, did a thorough inspection, cleaned the gold fingers, and reassembled it. The plug for the keyboard had a little corrosion on it that was easily cleaned. When we powered it on the Widget drive was stuck. We were able to fix that, and were rewarded with a boot screen. We need to rebuild the keyboard. Fortunately one of the RICM's volunteers has lots of experience doing that.
The batteries on the on the 2/5 leaked everywhere. There is green corrosion on all of the connectors on the backplane, gold fingers, and it even ate through some of the traces on the I/O board. We removed the batteries and washed off the worst of it. We will give everything a good scrub with dilute vinegar and set this one aside for later restoration. We received two 5 MB Profile drives with the 2/10. Exploring the content of those drives will be done next week.
The 2/10 is in great condition because it never had batteries on the I/O board. We removed the boards and power supply, did a thorough inspection, cleaned the gold fingers, and reassembled it. The plug for the keyboard had a little corrosion on it that was easily cleaned. When we powered it on the Widget drive was stuck. We were able to fix that, and were rewarded with a boot screen. We need to rebuild the keyboard. Fortunately one of the RICM's volunteers has lots of experience doing that.