Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wjvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!sun!qubix!wjvax!ron From: ron@wjvax.UUCP (Ron Christian) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Electronics wearing out Message-ID: <513@wjvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 13:15:00 EDT Article-I.D.: wjvax.513 Posted: Tue Jul 2 13:15:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 06:59:17 EDT References: <11251@brl-tgr.UUCP> <2300019@hp-pcd.UUCP> Reply-To: ron@wjvax.UUCP (Ron Christian) Organization: Watkins Johnson, San Jose, Calif. Lines: 29 Summary: >> . . . if you're very careful, you could replace the battery yourself >> without killing the RAM. I for one wouldn't want to try it. Then again, >> I probably would not buy such a product in the first place. >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> Ron Christian (Watkins-Johnson Co. San Jose, Calif.) > >The question is: "How do you know when you buy a product whether it has >battery-backed RAM, in the first place?" *** You read the net, of course. (1/2 :-) Seriously, this is a good question. I guess you try to benifit from other's mistakes whenever possible. When the price of a product reaches the level where you subjectivly decide it's expensive, you try to find out whatever you can about it before laying down cash. When you find that in spite of your best efforts you've bought something with such a bone-headed 'feature' as this one, you quietly try to unload it at minimum loss. That's the only advice I can offer. Actually, I've been known to pry the back off electronic equipment before I buy it. Found a battery in a synthesizer I was about to buy, but further investigation proved it only kept the user settable parameters alive. No big deal. __ Ron Christian (me again) (Watkins-Johnson Co. San Jose, Calif.) {pesnta,twg,ios,qubix,turtlevax,tymix,vecpyr,certes,isi}!wjvax!ron -- __ Ron Christian (Watkins-Johnson Co. San Jose, Calif.) {pesnta,twg,ios,qubix,turtlevax,tymix,vecpyr,certes,isi}!wjvax!ron