Sort forgot about the battery question when I came back to this today. Small batteries that are some level or wet or gel Lithium based batteries and smaller than 4-6 inches on a side will go as long as:
*Must have three or more gold contacts *must not be dry cell *must not have a metal case *must not have a metal side on any side
Anything larger will generally fall into the laptop battery class as long as *’d needs are covered.
Blanks are found on any older system that had more than two CPU ports Be it ram, slot processors. Some systems with Enhanced PCI Xtended cards had blank card requirements. They required paired sockets. A blank with fingers creates a “ghost” card. The computer thinks there’s something in there. This mostly stems from the IDE (XT/AT) bus and the way sub channels on interrupts are handled. Slot processor boards had the worst troubles but AMD dual Socket A boards were, are, notorious for issues. In some cases EVERY open socket needed a blank. You ever find a complete AMD Game X computer for under $100 it’s pure money. Blank processor, blank ram, gold terminators on every scsi port, blank IDE and EAT boards. You’ve got around $100 in fingers and pins alone. And the shields are a palladium alloy grounded with silver wire.
Considering at the time 512MB ram cost thousands and 256 was the same price, most SysOps chose a single stick and a $20 blank rather than spending twice as much on two sticks for the same amount of memory.
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