-=> JIM HOLSONBACK wrote to TOM WALKER <=-

 JH> WTH, Tom?  I thought the point of his posting was that he was a
 JH> tech-interested fellow, posting about his own experience, and with a
 JH> lot of good add-on info which he had gathered about laptop batteries.

 JH> I _liked_ the opportunity to read about it here,  because my SIL gave
 JH> me this older Pentium laptop, and it has a bad battery pack, and I'm
 JH> for sure not going to pay $100+ to get a new Compaq battery pack for
 JH> it, when the whole thing may be only worth $75 or so, with a working
 JH> battery pack.

I was going to refurbish an old Radio Shack Model 100
by going to www.digikey.com and checking the specifications
for their solderable tab individual rechargables to fit the case.
Roll my own power pack as it were.
Unfortunately the machine died before I moved on this.
 
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