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In article <4nle52$9p7@jedi.apana.org.au>,
Craig Dewick <cdewick@jedi.apana.org.au> wrote:
>Mark Henderson's NVRAM/HostID FAQ might also include how to do this, but I
>haven't seen anything about it there.

>You need to use a 3 volt cell, not a 4.5 volt one. I had a few spare 3
>volt lithium cells out of old calculators, so I used one of them, and
>hacked up a battery holder out of a 3.5 mm phone socket and a small piece
>of veroboard. The assembly is stuck on top of the NVRAM with some 
>double-sided tape. It's ugly, but it works. 
>
>The downside of my approach is that it gets in the way of any cards I want
>to plug into Sbus slots 1 or 2, but since the SS1 is my gateway, there's
>nothing plugged into them, so it's ok. 

I was relucatant to include this in the FAQ, because it seems silly 
to go to this kind of trouble to avoid buying a US$20 part. I finally 
did add a descrption of the procedure taken from an old FAQ near the 
end of the document in the "Odds and Ends" section, due to popular 
demand. 

I still don't think this is worth the trouble and inconvenience. I 
keep a couple of spare M48T02 chips on hand, and when one fails, I 
just pop in a new one. 

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