On Thursday 29 December 2005 03:41 am, Doc Shipley wrote:
     ISTR somebody recently mentioned soldering battery
leads to two legs
 of a Dallas CMOS clock chip.  Does that ring any bells?
    I'm fiddling with a Compaq SLT/286 whose Dallas module is very dead.
   I'd like to fix it. 
Speaking of which,  I have one of those modules that I pulled off some board
that was otherwise trashed.  Is there any easy way to tell what condition the
battery is in?
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a critter that can
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