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From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: How to replace Mac II battery?
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Date: 14 Mar 90 18:42:33 GMT
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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.

Robert

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