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- From: claevius@prairienet.org (Brent Busby)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Battery Acid Timebomb
- Date: 30 Jan 1996 04:45:06 GMT
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- Dean Ridgway (ridgwad@PEAK.ORG) wrote:
-
- : 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).
-
- Actually, the battery in my A3000T system is still fine, and it's from
- 1992, but I just want a contigency for when and if it does decide to go
- bad. This machine is way too valuable to me to risk. (And I have a
- friend with an A3000 desktop who's been wondering the same thing...)
-
- --
- Amiga /// | | "They had a glow-in-the-dark
- 040 /// | Brent Busby ("Sequencer") | Santa in their yard. Santa
- \\\/// | claevius@prairienet.org | isn't radioactive, is he?
- \XX/ | | Cool beans. Nuclear Santa."
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