red_avatar wrote:Whelmy wrote:The Unisys Aquanta SC arrived. […]
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The Unisys Aquanta SC arrived.
Heard rattling inside the case when I unpacked it which is never good. Upon opening it I see the battery has come loose as well as one stick of ram. The battery holder appears to just naturally be loose by design so no wonder that came out. The ram on the other hand appears that one of the plastic notches that clip into the holes on the ram has broken off, but seems to still be held in place well enough otherwise upon reinsertion.
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https://imgur.com/a/RGkPBH5
I like that case - are you going to retrobrite it ?
And a loose battery holder has its advantages 🤣 replacing the battery on my IBM Aptiva took me like an hour because the pin holding it into place was so tight, removing the battery required me to insert all sorts of metal prongs to lift it up so I could finally get it out of the socket. I almost damaged the board getting it out!
I think eventually yes I will, if anything just to see the original colour which should more match the painted steel case. A few nicks down to bare steel can be seen on the case itself so eventually repainting the whole thing may be in order I'd just have to find a paint that matches the stock colour.
The floppy drive was giving all kinds of trouble refusing to fully read floppies, after pulling it all out, replacing the drive and even the cable still gave the same error. went back to the original cable and now it's all working again... so not sure what that was all about. Hard drive has no bad sectors so that's nice. But boy does the PSU get hot. Outer casing is at the point where another degree or so it would be to hot to place your hand against it.
Need to look into getting a better exhaust fan. 60mm? I think. Not sure how effective it can be when the system is fully enclosed there are no air vents on the front, top, bottom or sides.