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- From: ridgwad@PEAK.ORG (Dean Ridgway)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Battery Acid Timebomb
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 12:42:14 -0800
- Organization: CS Outreach Services, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
- Message-ID: <4ejbf6$bf5@PEAK.ORG>
- References: <4efa0d$apr@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4efgfh$ou3@serpens.rhein.de> <4eghli$j1q@news.sdd.hp.com> <19960128.79357D8.132A1@mother.com>
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- In article <19960128.79357D8.132A1@mother.com>,
- Dan J. Fraser <dfraser@mother.com> wrote:
- >
- >In article <4eghli$j1q@news.sdd.hp.com> Jeff Grimmett <jgrimm@sdd.hp.com> writes:
- >> 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.
- >
- >All of the PC clone motherboards have a standard can-style battery soldered
- >directly to the board. ALL of them. I've seen some old mutant IBM 286's
- ^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- This is definitely *NOT* true. I recently put a new motherboard in my PC
- "games machine" and the battery is held down by a screw and is easily
- removeable. I don't see the big deal though (I agree with Jeff, most PC's
- are obsolete and replaced *LONG* before you need to change the battery).
-
- This battery business has come up a few times before, Commodore must have
- really cheapened things up toward the end. My A500 with the Commodore
- memory/clock module in the trapdoor (A501?) has been going strong since
- 1989 on the original battery. This machine is in more or less *CONSTANT*
- use (at least four hours *EVERY* day). Heck, I even still use the
- original mouse (although its starting to go flakey).
-
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