On 2000-09-01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Aren't we talking about "survivor" PCs? (i.e. - Big honking ISA-bus
>machines, where you could rarely, if ever, fill all eight ISA card
>slots? The kind of machine that acts as a very large base for your
>monitor, and is usually powered by an old 286 or maybe a 386?)
>> I don't think the lithium batteries are rechargeable,
>They aren't.
Yes, "Big honking ISA-bus machines"... I love that description. ;-)
Reminds me of something Dr. Seuss would have written...
I have one of those -- an IBM AT, model 319, with BIOS from 11-15-85.
The 7V lithium battery (original) is still stuck in the machine with
a peculiar velcro holder, roughly the size of an old transistor radio
battery. It seems a far cry from the small coin shaped batteries now
used for the CMOS.
Thanks for your suggestions for replacing these (I've been lurking and
had to reply). I may or may not do so, however, since it's not that
much trouble to enter the time and date at boot up with those commands
written in autoexec.bat -- especially since this machine is not a
"mission critical" computer. And I'm already used to doing it that
way, which is the normal way, with my PC XT.
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