Reviving a COMPAQ Portable II

This COMPAQ Portable II of 1986 is the third machine I own from the portable series. However, it experienced some issues, like a dead CMOS battery and broken disk drives. It's about time to see how I can bring this thing back to life! 00:00 Intro 00:29 Unboxing 01:20 Disassembly 02:00 Repairing the Floppy Drive 03:31 Testing the Floppy Drive 03:55 Testing the Hard Drive 04:33 Replacing the CMOS Battery 05:09 Replacing the Hard Drive 05:43 Installing DOS 06:39 Keyboard Cleanup 07:00 Bonus #1: Spare Floppy Drive 07:23 Bonus #2: Another Tandon Floppy Drive 08:26 Outro Visit also THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR website at https://phintage.phunsites.net for insights into my retro computer collection. Copyright @ 2022 THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR, Gianpaolo Del Matto. All rights reserved. Theme Music composed by Abdallah El-Ghannam. https://www.fiverr.com/abdallahghannam