So how is everything now? Snug and sturdy? I am running a 11 year old computer and never even noticed a battery 🔋. Have a good day.
Nightfox wrote to Rixter <=-
battery and reset the time and other settings in the BIOS. Older PCs
from the 80s often had a battery directly soldered to the motherboard,
but newer PCs tend to use one of those flat round CR2032 batteries that are easier to replace.
For as much nostalgia as I have for older operating systems, I don't miss MFM drives, fat ribbon cables taking up all of the space in my case, those little wires that connected to the motherboard for lights and turbo switches (which weren't keyes or standardized, so getting them all working was a chore) or setting jumpers for IRQs.
What I do miss? That satisfying THUNK of an old power supply switch, ticking memory tests, and hard drives with access lights you could see from the outside of the case.