Re: Long life battery!!!

[brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian Hammack)]

 Dr. Buggie outgassed these fumes:

 BUE(| Let's boogie, let's buggie, let's _solder_!

You'd prefer superglue?  :)

 BUE(| With all the hype about the charms of overpriced slide-on
     | batteries for the IIgs, I am waiting for my IIgs to need a
     | replacement,  I salvaged a good lithium 3.6v battery from a
     | junked Gateway 386, and I will delight in SOLDERING that battery
     | to its motherboard terminals!

I said cheese that noise and ordered a 1/2AA battery holder from Radio
Shack ($1 plus $1 postage) and used double-stick foam tape to mount the
thing in the little frame marked "battery" on my ROM01, so when I need
to change the cell in about nine years from now (give or take some)
it'll be as easy as if I owned a ROM03.  RatShack has the battery, cat
number 23-26 in-store (the leaded solder-in ones are special order).

As for the PRICING of those damn Tadrian 1/2AA cells:  blah.  Good
thing they last a decade because at an average of $1 per year...

 * 2qwk! 2.04 * NORTON:  Patron saint of oddly-named utility programs.
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