Palm IIIx batteries change
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As  I  mentioned  before I  have  returned  to  use  of my  Palm  IIIx.
Everything goes well except one thing. When I replace batteries for the
first time (I use a pair of AAA rechargeable ones) then the device shut
down and emtied its  RAM completely. I had to use  my backup to restore
it.

I thought that it is a problem of an old capacitor or something.

Next time  I have replaced the  batteries in a piecemeal  fashion (that
is, I first replaced  one AAA with keeping the second  one in its place
and only then replaced the second  one). This time the machine show the
"Fatal  Exception" dialog  and hung.  After the  reset it  ended in  an
infinite loop  with a blinking screen.  I had to remove  both batteries
and to wait when the RAM will be empty.

I hope that it will not repeat next time. In any case it is a good idea
to make regular backups...  I am now using the J-Pilot  to keep my Palm
synced and backed up and it is  good to know that J-Pilot can work with
more than one device  [1] because I will probably want  to use a second
Palm, too.


References:

[1] gopher://sdf.org/0/users/nm03/2022/FEB2022/entry_3

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