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From: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Battery-Backed Clock Goes Back
Message-ID: <369@mcdsun.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 19:21:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: mcdsun.369
Posted: Thu Sep  3 19:21:02 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 17:25:28 EDT
References: <8708300822.AA20905@cogsci.berkeley.edu> <4410010@hpcvcd.HP>
Reply-To: fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division
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In article <4410010@hpcvcd.HP> charles@hpcvcd.HP (Charles Brown) writes:
>Ni-Cads will not last "forever" anyway.  Just sitting there being
>trickle charged wears them out.  It would be nice to know how long
>these will last.

I don't know if it is a record or not, but I have a G.E. electric
toothbrush, presumably containing a ni-cad, that still works quite well
after at least 10 years of daily use (the motor part, not the brush :-).

-Fred
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