Re: About Crash

Wayne Venables (wvenable@sfu.ca)
Wed, 09 Jul 1997 23:07:46 -0700

At 11:22 PM 7/9/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Pablo,
>
>Corne Beerse is quite correct, the removal of the AA batteries alone is not
>enough to wipe your memory. The backup (coin) battery must be drained as
>well.

If the OmniGo has crashed (ie Locked up). Removal of the main batteries
will most likely erase the RAM. I've had it happen twice.

>P.S. I regularly remove my batteries to insert the power supply I built, I
>have NEVER lost data due to removing the batteries. Inserting the "battery
>replacer" backwards maybe :-( but never from just removing the (AA)
>batteries

My cat once knocked by OmniGo off the self and the batteries came out,
the coin battery held the RAM going for quite a while. But if the OmniGo
is crashed when they are removed, you are taking your chances!

Later,

Wayne Venables Faculty Computing Science
wvenable@sfu.ca School of Applied Science
Apollo Web Design Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC, Canada
http://www.sfu.ca