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From: rsutc@fornax.UUCP (Rick Sutcliffe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: How to replace Mac II battery?
Summary: batteries die
Message-ID: <433@fornax.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 90 20:34:18 GMT
References: <8058@tank.uchicago.edu>
Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
Lines: 28

In article <8058@tank.uchicago.edu>, gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:

> In article <1990Mar3.215553.14923@cs.umn.edu>, chou@cs.umn.edu (Chih-Hsiang Chou) writes...
>  
> >In article <451@dbase.A-T.COM> cy@dbase.UUCP (Cy Shuster) writes:
> >>Various sources warn that the time has finally come for those of us
> >>who purchased early Mac IIs (and who haven't left them powered up
> >>continuously) to have our soldered-on-the-motherboard batteries run
> >>down.
> >>
> 
> Could someone (preferably from Apple) please clarify this?  I have a II from
> late '87.  Surely I can't have to have the motherboard replaced. I haven't

I have some Apple //GS machines from the first batch ever done (limited
editions) - must be early 87, I suppose.  All have dead batteries.  They
have to be removed and new ones soldered in.  While none of my macs have
yet met the same fate, I assume they will eventually.  I have not checked
to see how hard it is to remove the Mac battery, but soldered in batteries
are enough to make one resort to assault and battery.  A dumb design
decision.

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