First post, by my03
Dear Vogons,
i have now owned this machine (Victor V286P) for a couple of years. Everything functions well (except for the bios battery, but i'll come to this later....).
Some odd 34 years ago, i actually did my "work experience program" (when i was 14 years old) with this company and i still have fond memories of playing "snake" and Leisure suit Larry while doing that 😁
anyway, many years later i got my hands on this machine:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/omPymUcSPd1ikZPX6
Googling this machine does not really give that much information back, but apparently Kyocera produced these machines for Victor (or Sirius as the were known from the start). I've also found people claiming this to be a Toshiba T3100/3200 basically. Question is: what is it?
There are some minor issues with it:
When activating the backlight on it, there are some "stripes" coming from the top. I guess its about high time for a screen recap.
But my major concern is how on earth i would go about opening this unit up? I made some attempts earlier but could not really take the lid of (i remove all the screws underneath and tried to carefully "pull" the lid, but there seems to be something holding it stuck. Scary since plastic this old can be quite brittle.
Basically, i would like to take care of two things: exchanging the bios battery on it (so i don't need to enter setup every time and choose the "type 1" hdd option (i installed AnyDrive on it earlier so that the HDD would be detected) and i would also like to open the screen casing up to recap it properly (those "stripes")