[comp.sys.apple] IIGS Lithium battery

mdavis@pro-sol.cts.com (Morgan Davis) (01/08/89)

Nick,

I've been running a Cortland (IIGS prototype) here for a year using the exact
battery replacement scheme you outlined: two AA's soldered to the lithium
battery posts as appropriate.  The AA's I used were not new, yet the machine
has been keeping good time for over a year so far.  The original lithium
battery flaked out after only a year and a half.  I understand, however, that
Apple switched batteries when the release version of the IIGS was produced.
On a side note, my *real* IIGS has been keeping good time for over two years.

BTW, I leave both machines on all the time.  So perhaps the drain on the
battery isn't as significant as if the machines had been kept turned off most
of the time.

--Morgan

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