Op 12-3-2011 20:14, Jerome St-Pierre schreef:
> But I still have another stupid question. I don't understand how removing
> the battery could affect the patches? Aren't they saved on some kind of hard
> drive? Or are they really kept loaded in memory with the battery?
A hard drive? We're talking about a few kilobytes, at most, of data.
Even in 1997, when the AN1x first came out, a hard disc would have a
capacity of several gigabytes, which is in a totally different league.
(1 kilobyte: 1024 bytes; 1 megabyte: 1024 kilobytes; 1 gigabyte: 1024
megabytes.)
So yes, it's just a little bit of memory backed up by a battery. Today,
I saw the 'low battery' warning for the first time. Have had the AN1x
since 1998...
- Peter