29 Dec
2005
29 Dec
'05
9:47 p.m.
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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