Re: [Thinkpad] Ailing 600 RECOVERS!

Ellis:
You seem to be the master of receiving bad info tonite. In fact, the CMOS
battery is certainly still made! Fedco Electronics makes them (wholesale
quantities only), and IBM parts still sell them - in fact, one of my
customers bought one from IBM only two weeks ago, and I bought 25 from Fedco
very recently. Amazing how people will pass along wrong information, or just
outright lie (the motherboard guy - 600 series mobo's are all over Ebay for
$40-50, and take around an hour to install if you don't know what you are
doing - I have done them in less than 15 minutes, four thumbs and all!!)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ellis Weiner" <eweiner@nni.com>
To: "ThinkPad group" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 9:11 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] Ailing 600 RECOVERS!

> Bruce, Chris, and yes, even Ron--
>
> CMOS it was! Fixed the whole dang thing for $8.50 at Battery
> World on Ventura in Woodland Hills (take note,
> LA list people). They had to retrofit the TP leads and clip onto a new
> battery, since no one makes the 600 CMOS
> battery any more.
>
> This was, I think we can all agree, preferable to the strategy of
> the joker I talked to on the phone in Burbank: "You need
> a new systemboard. I can give you a used systemboard for between $499
> and $599."
>
> I love you guys...
>
> Ellis
>
>
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