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Re:The looming software kill-switch lurking in aging Playsta... by ed25519FUUU on Thursday April 15, 2021 @10:15AM (#26820783)
You’d figure equipment like this would simply have two coin cell batteries rather than one. It would make swapping them much easier.
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Re:The looming software kill-switch lurking in aging Playsta... by sokoloff on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:01AM (#26821305)
On test equipment (and many older CRT projectors) these are typically lithium batteries embedded within the package of a non-volatile SRAM IC (often Dallas Semi) rather than an easily replaceable coin cell. There are zero exposed coin cells, not one, not two.
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