Actually....No....I didn't know to do that!
Thanks! that is obviously a fantastic work flow for this kind of thing and I really appreciate your telling me,
I'm a musician by trade, and I've only gotten into electronics over the last couple of months, so there is a LOT I don't know, and though I've been successful in a few projects, I have a long way to go before I would ever consider myself a competent tinkerer,
What I want to do is just replace the internal battery, for the 2nd time since I bought it the polly 800 has started to make strange noises instead of the appropriate sounds, last time I re-loaded the original factory info through the tape ins, and managed to get it back up and running, it seems to me that I re-loaded the lost info onto what little was left of the battery, there may have been enough juice to hold the info and run for a few days but I think the battery has had it now.
So yeah, no mod, actually just trying to get back normal functioning.