Jasen Betts wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

RJT> That's true.  The one time I breadboarded a CMOS ram chip and put 
RJT> it into standby mode the current draw was *WAY* down there, 
RJT> barely able to measure it on my digital meter.

JB> yeah, microamps last time I measured it.

I think I was looking at something like 0.2uA...

This was about the same whether I was looking at a 2k or 8k part,  which is
all that I had on hand.

RJT> Which means that the one in that 386 box I'm using for a fw/r is
RJT> *really* toast. 

JB> could be the motherboard has the wrong charging ciercuit,

Dunno,  it's not something I've messed with at all,  just put ram in it and
went from there.

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