8 May
2001
8 May
'01
12:42 p.m.
Yes, the lithium batteries that are 3.6V and about half the length of a double-A
and
just as wide. The older Mac IIs used two, whereas the more modern systems use
one.
Radio $hack wants $10 a piece for them (when they have them), most outlet
electronics
stores sell them for $5.
Eric
P.S. I used to repair Macs and as Jeff stated the Macs wouldn't even boot without
them.
Needless to say, many repairs that I did were to replace said battery.
Jeff Hellige wrote:
What in tunket
is a pram battery? My pram was manually operated... fully Y2K
compliant, too!
> My first suspect is often the pram battery
The closest analogy I can make concerning what a PRAM battery
is would be that it's the Mac version of the PC's BIOS settings. The
Mac keeps various setting data in a small RAM area and the battery
retains the info. WIthout the info, the Mac generally won't even
boot until the battery is replaced.
Jeff
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