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- From: Jeff Grimmett <jgrimm@sdd.hp.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Battery Acid Timebomb
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 19:09:38 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
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- mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst) wrote:
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- >>I'm surprised there isn't more discussion on this. It's the
- >>lurking timebomb inside every battery backed Amiga, and on
- >>every bridgeboard, and a solution has to be found.
- >
- >As lurking as in most PCs.
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- Nope, most peecees have removable batteries. Also, there aren't many
- peecees that have the long-term usefulness of an Amiga, so by the time
- the battery goes, that computer's a doorstop anyway.
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