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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Battery Acid Timebomb
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 21:39:46 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- Jeff Grimmett <jgrimm@sdd.hp.com> writes:
-
- >Nope, most peecees have removable batteries.
-
- Well. I have seen everything from separate battery packs, solderd in batteries
- and "zero power" chips that have a lithium cell in the chip package.
-
- However. Even removable batteries are the same "time bombs". There is
- no principal difference between the battery packs and the soldered
- variants and usually they aren't far away from the motherboard.
-
- >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.
-
- This is of course a valid argument :)
-
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- Michael van Elst
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