OK, I've got 23 Amiga 500's - now what?

[starf81]

A month ago I've checked the battery of my 13 years old A500+ (... my first Amiga!). It was a disaster!

It was a stroke of luck because the battery had a lot of leakage but hasn't yet reached the motherboard.

Now I've changed the battery placing it in a safer place (in the right side of the case, near the floppy) with two wires soldered on the motherboard.

Alex

[starf81]

Here's another question for you all ... should the startup screen (the hand/disk screen) have a purple background, or is my 1084S monitor faulty?

It is correct for Amigas with Kickstart 2.0 and following but that screen is animated (a disk enters into a floppy drive...  there isn't any hand).
Otherwise, the previous kickstart versions (1.0-1.3) shows the hand with the disk on a WHITE background.

Alex