Greetings!

Our next SACC meeting is this Sunday, May 19th at 1:30 PM. We will be meeting in person at the Holiday Inn and on-line.

The meeting agenda and hotel information is on the homepage of the club website. Go to www.sacc.org/index.shtml to check it out!

I’m happy to add your topic or project to the Agenda, just reply to this email with your topic. The URL for the online Jitsi meeting is: meet.jit.si/SacramentoAmigaComputerClub

Thanks,
Jerry Gray - SACC VP

2032...

Here I am again (14 years later), searching for a tech answer and finding that over a decade ago I asked the question and info was given leading to a solution. There needs to be a word for that -- it's happening to me more and more (usually I find traces of my earlier questions on the Usenet, though.)

At ANY rate, since this post I've twice replaced the battery in my Amiga 2000. Most recently it was a very large 3.5v pack with huge mAh rating, but it did the job (built by Batteries Plus for me).

So, again I need to replace this battery. I've got it run a distance from the mobo with cables and I just solder the new onto the cables and keep it hanging under the plastic faceplate -- leak away, battery, 'tis no matter!


SO -- Batteries Plus has in stock a small 3.6v NiCAD with 400mAh. I see the original A2000 clock battery was 3.6v NiCAD with 80mAh. I just wanted to get opinion here (it's been a while since I get into this) that I should be fine with that much higher mAH. I am sure the current large 3x1.2pack has even higher than that --- and it might be a NiMH, I can't recall for certain.

Thanks for confirming or dispelling. Cheers.

Edit: I am aware of the coin-cell motherboard mounted kits that make the swapout easier. I'm not interested in that - I've got these cables run and soldering new batteries to them every 4 years is a breeze.

bp

 It was ahead of its time. Don’t forget PC’s of the time period were no where near to doing what Commodore were releasing hardware wise. The Amiga had a custom chipset which produced Sound and Graphics. It can multi-task. Okay it wasn’t PC compatible so therefore you couldn’t run things like WordPerfect or Lotus 1-2-3 etc… But things like games and the Demo Scene started because of this system.

a big thing for me was commodore introduced true multitasking in 1985 on the amiga, while microsoft and apple were stumped on that till 1990.
it was the first personal computer that i know of that could produce a broadcast quality NTSC video.