Cool... I would have thought those were a "potted" unit totally
sealed in a poured solid "plastic" lump...

                                  Rick Glazier

From: "Clinton A Worley" <[log in to unmask]>
> I have taken the top off of an RTC unit installed on a Pentium mobo and
> found an IC chip with two pins bent up out of the socket and a small
> battery soldered onto these two pins.

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