Re: IIGS Battery Backup...

[cknoblo@gonix (Carl Knoblock)]

dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
: In article <4k6lnt$cnc@lynx.unm.edu>,
: stephen e buggie <buggie@enzu.unm.edu> wrote:
: 
: > Never could understand WHY so many readers raved about the Night Owl 
: > battery at "only" $14.95.    Paying $15 for a battery is not my idea of a 
: > bargain!
: 
: You pay this once, and you get to keep the clip-on mechanism, so that
: when you next need to replace the battery, you can just buy a normal
: one (the type used in the ROM 3, which I think Nite Owl supplied for
: more like US$10).
: 
David, you have never seen the Nite Owl battery. It is just like the 
original Rom 1 battery, with leads attached at both ends, but the leads 
have been coiled, to slip onto the original battery leads which are cut 
off as close to the battery as possible and then straightened. Thus, the 
Nite Owl is a "Slide-On" device, not a clip on. You save only the effort 
of clipping and straightening the leads the next time. If it came with a 
battery holder to hold the leadless version of the battery, it would be 
nice, but it doesn't.

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