6 Jan
2015
6 Jan
'15
9:17 a.m.
On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Bob Vines wrote:
However, since you said your battery was already dead
and you have to
reinstall VMS every time the system is powered down, I guess that your
system doesn't store anything *critical* in that RAM.
Yes, whatever was in there is long gone.
I don't care for chips with internal batteries, I don't like them in
computers and I loath them in Tektronix test equipment - that is why my
oscilloscope is a 547. There are lots of other Tek scopes that do not use a
stupid chip with a battery but mine happens to be a 547.
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