Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!munnari.oz.au!bruce!monu1!vaxc!phs172m From: phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen Harker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Still Ticking! Message-ID: <74287.2752297a@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> Date: 26 Nov 90 21:53:13 GMT References: Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia Lines: 32 In article , sk2f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Seth D. Kadesh) writes: [deleted] > found that the battery was still good! I have must have one of the > first Woz machines (I got it in late December when they were first > introduced). The clock was a little off (an hour plus, but I wasn't > home to set it back for daylight savings!) > So what's the record for one of these batteries? And what do I do when > it (eventually) dies? > > a happy GS owner > -seth I too have a Woz signature GS with its original battery. I bought my machine in November 1986, but the date it was bought has little effect - a friend has a Woz machine bought about a year later (brand new); in Australia they seemed to have much lower initial GS sales than expected, hence Woz machines were available for a long time. However the Woz machines were supposed to be the first few (I think 40,000 from memory) produced. The critical thing seems to be variations in the battery. Some just last longer than others - use should not affect this much according to some electrical engineer friends. When your battery dies get a replacement from Night Owl. These are slide on batteries, you just clip the leads of the present battery and the new one should just slide on. I know a number of people who have done this and it is very easy. I don't know the address for Night Owl, but you can get them from A2-Central. -- Stephen Harker Monash University