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From: jack@csccat.UUCP (Jack Hudler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Req for IBM AT Battery Part number ? IBM do not know it !!!
Message-ID: <2769@csccat.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 89 19:31:52 GMT
References: <1472@stl.stc.co.uk>
Reply-To: jack@csccat.UUCP (Global Operational Dictator <GOD>)
Organization: Computer Support Corporation. Dallas,Texas
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In article <1472@stl.stc.co.uk> gap@stl.stc.co.uk (Gerald Pearse) writes:
>IBM - and there QUALITY OF SERVICE ?

>Well here we go again I thought. So here I am getting fed up, if you
>cannot get a battery out of IBM what must it be like for other parts
>!!.

Do yourself a favor.. don't ever do that again! :-)
Now I am telling you nothing you don't already know now, IBM's
bureaucracy is worst than your goverments (UK) and mine (USA)
put together.. I mean you could get an ulcer from tring it.
I order to succeed you would have to have the mentality of a civil servant..
god knows we have enough of those! :-)
>
>Well the bottom line is - has anyone ordered an IBM battery, and have
>they a Part No I could have. 
>
>Model:  EARLY style IBM AT - old style keyboard 
>Model No: 5170
>
>Battery: 6.8v Lithium, rectangular in shape, with flying leads and
>				plug that connects to motherboard..
You have the spec's.. use someone else's.. there is nothing special
about a battery from IBM.. other than the %200 markup for the overhead.
Cut the leads and put them on another 6.8v Lithium Cell.

>
>Regards,
>        Gerald Pearse (gp@stl  ...!mcvax!ukc!stl!gp  +44-279-29531 x 2224)