-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to JASEN BETTS <=-

RE: NiCad CMOS cells.

 RJT> As it is, I do have this nicad sitting here..

 JB> you may as well use it then, it might be worth mounting it remote
 JB> from the motherboard

 RJT> There's a thought.  

 Darn good one too, use that method myself on such boards.
 
 Believe it or not this board has a barrel soldered in NiCad
 over 11 years old!!! Still keeps time perfectly and no sign of
 leakage.
 
 RJT> I am not in the habit of turning that machine off
 RJT> at all, so I'm not real worried about it.  
 
Not turning the machine off at all tends to shorten the lifetime 
of those soldered in NiCad cells in my experience.

 RJT> The main thing just now is
 RJT> that I don't have either a monitor or a keyboard hooked up to that box,
 RJT>  so if we do lose power it's going to be a bit of a PITA to deal
 RJT> with...

I gotta get my Pentium going again.

Stupid 72 pin SIMM socket and RAM in this 486 
don't seem to seat perfectly so every now and than an 
unpredictable amount of RAM doesn't register or disappears in operation
crashing Netscape or another application.

I've cleaned the socket and RAM, reseated the RAM, tightened
the locking clips which held for a while but now it appears if I
leave the machine on for any length of time bye goes the RAM.

Picked up a soldering iron the other day for like the first time in
five years or more.

Darn T.V.'s remote control's positive battery connection was one
of those stiff bent wires from the P.C. board threaded into the 
battery compartment. Broke flush with the board right where
it was bent to access the battery compartment.

With little hope of success, bad eyesight and unsteady hands
I pretinned the broken pieces and blobbed them back together 
using just fingers to immobilize the lead.

Imagine my surprise when the repair took without so much as
a cold solder joint. Got lucky on timing and the solder cooled before
my fingers moved.

Nice surprise and the repair only took me about four minutes.

Now does _anyone_ have a clue as to what the remote code for a 
Montgomery Ward  branded T.V. might possibly be?

I've yet to get the FCC number off the set and try looking it up 
via google.
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