This computer beat the odds.

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I got this Hitachi visionbook 7000 for $5 at an estate sale. It seemed like a typical (although surprisingly well built) windows 95 era laptop. However the adventure began when I powered it on to be met with a bios password lock. I cannot express how big of a deal these next points are. THE BIOS BATTERY WAS STILL WORKING Properly AND HOLDING A CHARGE. The standby battery was also working perfectly. HOW!??!?! And yet, there was more! The main battery pack also works! I have tested and it keeps the laptop on for more than an hour when fully charged.

How does that even happen. My only guess is that for some reason the laptop was used frequently up until recently. But even then. There wasn't even an os like windows or Linux installed. It was some sort of secure Dos like command line based OS.

Very strange.