Best way for a newb to remove A2000 battery?

[Karlos]

If I do it myself is it safe to use a paper towel?
Or do I have to wear gloves?
Due to my disability I want to avoid wearing gloves if possible.  But no way in hell am I touching that thing with my bare hands.

If I sent my miggy to you, how much would you charge to remove my battery "properly"?

Can you not get a suitably gloved friend to remove the battery under your guidance?

[Karlos]

You thought you had bad leakage damage:
http://trinixy.ru/pics3/20080327/nag_51.jpg

[Karlos]

The best way for a newb to do this is the same way an electronics minded person should do it, pull the mobo out of the case, flip it over and desolder the battery contacts. Especially if you are going to put a new battery back in.

Agreed, this is by far the best way.

[Karlos]

The thing is... this is just an A2000 1 MB Chip, 8 MB Fast, Trumpcard Professional SCSI controller, 2 floppy drives.  It is a rev 4.5 (Is that bad?).  Its only purpose in life is to be an oldsk00l gamez machine.  It will never be used to do anything "serious".

I can't think of any reason why it needs to know the date.  Maybe I am forgetting something?  Is there a reason why it would help for it to know the date?

Knowing the time and date is such a basic, elemental thing that I can't imagine using a machine that doesn't know what time it is