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At 11:49 AM 10/23/96 -0700, P.van Schijndel wrote:
>I have an IBM 360CSE for about a year and a half. The battery life has
>gradually declined to the point that after only 70 seconds without any disk
>access (just typing this message, in fact, pulling the plug, and waiting) the
>ThinkPad beeps to signal low battery power, and 60 seconds after that, the
>ThinkPad beeps its final warning.
>
>What's wrong? Is my battery toast? Is there anything I can do to save it?
Sounds like it to me.
I'm surprised its toast after only a year and a half though.
Usually you can expect 2+ years before it gets anything like that--even with
fairly heavy use.
Did you leave it plugged in a lot and did it "cycle" (discharge to
about 90% and then re-charge--constantly)? My 750 did that--it was a *very*
bad idea to leave it plugged in with the battery inside. All that constant
cycling got the battery into an early grave.
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