Hi Volvo,

I think he said his was the same soldered battery and it was cut off.

Will have to wait till I see it.

Besides, I have an IC extractor coming from Ebay and it's not too difficult to remove the ROM chips right? I've done it many times in the past using a screwdriver (yikes!) but it worked.

How about this for a story.

Way back in the 80's a friend had a Mac 512 and he wanted me to upgrade his RAM.

So I got a Computer Shopper magazine, opened his cade, got the part numbers of his RAM chips and ordered some more.

Then using a piece of thin cardboard I placed each chip on top of the originals and soldered each and every leg. Took me all day but when I removed the cardboard for some cooling it worked and he never had a problem.

I wonder where that Mac is today?