[Coco] Survey of Coco realtime clock users

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 01 December 2007, Kevin Diggs wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> But that is probably a recharger for the internal lithium cell, and a
>> larger version of one of those just exploded in Korea, fatally breaking
>> the ribs and spine of the man who had it in his shirt pocket.  Those
>> button cells are NOT designed to be recharged, ever.
>
>Uhoh ... I sorta did this with the battery for my bike speedometer.
>
>How well would one of those backup capacitor things work?
>
>kevin

Turns out I should have checked that one on snopes.  It seems the guy was 
accidentally run over and killed by a co-worker, and he tried to use the 
cooked cellphone as the reason for the fatality.

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