Subj : Re: PC CMOS battery & GPU support bracket replaced
To   : Nightfox
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue Sep 10 2024 09:24 am

-=> Nightfox wrote to Rixter <=-

 Ni> battery and reset the time and other settings in the BIOS.  Older PCs
 Ni> from the 80s often had a battery directly soldered to the motherboard,
 Ni> but newer PCs tend to use one of those flat round CR2032 batteries that
 Ni> are easier to replace.

I had a crappy plastic 4xAA battery holder stuck to the inside of the
case with double-sided tape, which would inevitably fail and crash onto
the motherboard.

For as much nostalgia as I have for older operating systems, I don't
miss MFM drives, fat ribbon cables taking up all of the space in my
case, those little wires that connected to the motherboard for lights
and turbo switches (which weren't keyes or standardized, so getting them
all working was a chore) or setting jumpers for IRQs.

What I do miss? That satisfying THUNK of an old power supply switch,
ticking memory tests, and hard drives with access lights you could see
from the outside of the case.

 
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