Radio Shack loves to do this: stock a part, then discontinue it.
The next-best solution is to just buy a CR2032RH battery. These have
solder tabs on them. www.mouser.com has them as stock# 614-CR2032RH.
Ideally, you want a CR2032RH1 (which Mouser lists but does not stock),
but the tabs of an -RH can be bent to fit just fine in the PCB holes.
ref:
http://www.renata.com/content/tabbedlithium/3pinshorizontal.pdfCrow
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On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, toorglick wrote:
> Right now I'm waiting to see if I can get an old mobo from work so I can
> harvest the battery holder. Radio Shack apparently doesn't carry the
> part listed at the Old Crow's site these days (I went to a few local
> ones looking for even some left over stock). In the meantime, I'll
> start by cleaning the keybed and seeing if the dodgy patch #4 button can
> be cleaned.