Re: IIgs Battery

[Stavros Karatsoridis <skaratso@gmail.com>]

On May 23, 8:07 am, roughana <andrew.roug...@writeme.com> wrote:
> After listening to Open Apple podcast #15 and hearing Mike's tale of
> Randy's IIgs battery leaking, I was a bit spooked and have pulled out
> my IIgs motherboards to check them.
> I'm going to pull the batteries from each (they can't be working any
> more).
> But I'm wondering what will happen without any battery in the
> machine.
> I know the battery ram settings and time are lost but is that it?
> I've read the FAQ and done a search here, but have not found too many
> mentions of this.
> It appears that the IIgs does work with no battery connected at all,
> but is this detrimental in some way?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew

It doesn't appear to be detrimental, however it does become a pain to
have to change all the settings each time you turn the machine on,
especially if you have lots of cards in your machine. With the ROM 3
boards just get a new battery and pop it in. With the ROM 1 you can
leave some small length of the leads after clipping the battery off
and then connect a new battery in its place. (three AA batteries in
series in a holder with alligator clips works pretty well as a
replacement).