6400 PowerPc Performa Pram Battery issues - remove for storage?

Hello,
I have a 6400 that I want to use, primarily for storage of some older files, which I've now transferred onto it.
The unit obviously has a weak 4.5 volt alkaline Pram Battery as the Clock reverts to 1956 when is unplugged overnight.
My specific question is:
With all these vintage Performa's, will they work correctly and consistantly WITHOUT a Pram battery in them at all? (Realizing that the time must be set each time up).
I know WITH a weak Pram Battery random things begin to happen, and video can even be lost. My thinking for long term storage of an old unit would be to remove a weak battery before random problems degrade the unit.
Hence to iterate, will these units maintain the factory settings better and more consistantly WITHOUT a battery than with a Weak one, not losing the ability to come up.
Lowell

Jeff,
Thanks on your 64/6500's. I'm going to do just that.
My question was partly technical curiosity in that I've seen and read dozens of problematic symptoms from bad or weak batteries, and none of the answers ever said JUST TAKE
them out and leave them out until . . .
On that basis, I still can't quite figure out how all that relates to CUDA resets on a unit with problems. On most Performa's the board must be out to reset CUDA, and it would seem that the board would need power to reset?? (I'm speaking of a unit that is down, perhaps with a question mark or no hard drive showing, etc.) I'll keep reading.
FYI, I did make a battery pack fm 3 aa batteries for the 6360. Found one really interesting tidbit on AppleFritters, saying also that a 9 Volt battery has two 4.5's inside, and one guy used ONE of those.
Lowell
I removed the batteries from my retired 6400s and
6500s, primarily to prevent leakage (as Grant has
mentioned). I've seen the corrosive damage to
motherboards, caused by leaking alkaline solution
from those batteries. When I periodically start up
the 6400/6500s, I reset the date & time so that any
file modifications have the correct information.
Other than that inconvenience, the computers
function normally.

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