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- From: hoehle@zeus.gmd.de (Joerg Hoehle)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Battery Acid Timebomb
- Date: 15 Feb 1996 18:54:02 GMT
- Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
- Message-ID: <4fvvgb$m8e@omega.gmd.de>
- References: <4efa0d$apr@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4er37d$fta@mksrv1.dseg.ti.com> <EFR.171.000F8597@ballarat.edu.au>
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- Frank Russell (EFR@ballarat.edu.au) wrote:
- : In article <4er37d$fta@mksrv1.dseg.ti.com> Ya, right. (Mike Neus) writes:
-
- : >>lurking timebomb inside every battery backed Amiga, and on
- : >>every bridgeboard, and a solution has to be found.
-
- : >Why are you so worried over this? If they havn't leaked by now, they're not
- : >going to. Put your cover back on and replace the battery only if it goes
-
- Well, my A2000 from 1988 is working well, thanks, but my A4000/40 (two
- (or three?) years old) had an acid timebomb from Varta. I just cut it
- off. Now I've to find a new one and also somebody who can solder it
- in. My attention was caught because the clock was getting slower and
- slower.
-
- A friend who bought his A4000/40 at the same time has yet to open the
- case of his computer -- too much work lately.
-
- Joerg Hoehle.
- Joerg.Hoehle@gmd.de hoehle@zeus.gmd.de
-