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From: cy@dbase.A-T.COM (Cy Shuster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: How to replace Mac II battery?
Summary: Soft Solutions has 'em...
Message-ID: <476@dbase.A-T.COM>
Date: 22 Mar 90 02:25:27 GMT
References: <8058@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: cy@dbase.UUCP (Cy Shuster)
Organization: Ashton Tate Development Center Glendale, Calif.
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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
>heard anything about this before, in MacWeek or anywhere else.

I can't clarify, but RBAUER@oregon.uoregon.edu was kind enough to suggest
Soft Solutions in Oregon (503\461-1136), who stated they have 'em for $10.
I don't know how they're installed.

--Cy--    cy@dbase.a-t.com