Amiga 500 A501 RAM Board Battery Replacement - Unnecessary Surgery Guide
Amiga 500 A501 RAM Board Battery Replacement Unnecessary Surgery Guide *My Unnecessary Surgery guide video *Next article *Previous article *Alphabetical list of writings *Helped along by this Jan Beta video These past ten years my Amiga has been (blissfully?) unaware of the true date and time. As far as that Spanish girl was concerned, it has been 1991 this entire time. The longest year ever has recently come to an end, and I've brought her back into the 21st century. Ten years prior, when getting back into real Amiga hardware, one of the first things I learned when looking online was the essential need for one to get out their stored Amiga's, take it apart, and throw the battery out of it. While some Amiga's did not come out of the factory with a real time clock (RTC), the ones that lacked this all had an option to add one, either from 3rd party sources or directly from Commodore. For the top selling Amiga model, the 500, the official RTC offered from C...