I thought a supercap was best? But to answer the original question: yes, you may wish to replace the nicad
On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 at 18:42, Josh Malone <josh.mal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Battery leakage is a huge issue with the Tandy slabs. If you really don't > want to put another battery in, you can run the system without the memory > installed - it's not actually required for operation. I would recommend just > replacing it with another rechargeable NiMh and checking it in 10 years. > > On Sat, Feb 22, 2020, 8:21 PM Ben Strewens <bungop...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I didn't realize that the 100/102 had these batteries in them. I cracked >> open one of my 102s and the battery hasn't leaked, so that's good. Has >> this been a problem in these computers? Would it be a good idea to >> replace it with a lithium coin cell (with diode of course) or would it >> be depleted too quickly?