Well, I gave it a try, but the old lead-acid battery wasn't willing to cooperate, so the machine didn't boot. I'm not surprised - the original owner told me that it'd stopped booting years ago when the battery started losing its charge. Given the utterly immaculate condition of the system, I'm fully confident that it'll boot up with a rebuilt battery.

On that topic - has anyone here performed a rebuild on a Portable battery? Is it something that I (tech-savvy, but pretty much zero soldering experience) could hope to do on my own?

Any tips would be great - I'm dying to fire this puppy up and find out what's in there!

Thanks,

Huxley