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Re: IIGS Battery Backup...
- Subject: Re: IIGS Battery Backup...
- From: shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)
- Date: 1996/04/14
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: SouthWind Internet Access, Inc.
- References: <4gc8o6$kq2@yama.mcc.ac.uk> <4gf5km$7tq@yama.mcc.ac.uk> <4jssic$lhc@tetsuo.communique.net> <4k6lnt$cnc@lynx.unm.edu> <4kg48u$m6h@atlantis.atlantis.actrix.gen.nz>
David Empson (dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz) 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).
Really? The one I saw in a friend's IIgs just had leads twisted into loops
that could slip over the old leads sticking out of the logic board after you
cut off the old battery. Do they make 'em different now? All my IIgses still
have their original batteries but when they go I'll call Soft Solutions and
get new ones for $6 a pop.
--
Randy Shackelford I was internet
shack@southwind.net when internet wasn't cool