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I charge the rebuilt pack of mine inside an HP41 cassete drive.
Sorry, I can't help you with the polarity of the 97 connector.
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The feed to the calc is AC so polarity doesnt matter. *However* you have a problem inasmuch as the 97 wont power up without a battery pack without some internal hacking. You need 4 sub-c cells to make a pack (see elsewhere on this site for polarity) and need to feed around 8V AC at around 400mA. You could use a DC adaptor 9V at 500mA but you still need the pack!