Xref: utzoo rec.ham-radio:16944 sci.electronics:9655 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bpa!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) Newsgroups: rec.ham-radio,sci.electronics Subject: Re: Getting the time over the phone from NBS Message-ID: <9411@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 21 Jan 90 08:30:54 GMT References: <1043@khijol.UUCP> <899@tridom.uucp> <26101@cup.portal.com> <808@cupcake.sal.wisc.edu> <810@cupcake.sal.wisc.edu> Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 20 In article <810@cupcake.sal.wisc.edu> jwp@cupcake.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival) writes: > > I just finished building this kit, and the clock is very neat. But imagine > my surprise when I plug it in and find the digits in the display are all > messed up! After a bit of debugging, imagine my astonishment in finding > an error in the printed circuit board layout!!! Two of the digit anodes > were shorted together, not by any impurity or solder bridge, but by > a neat, straight, designed-in board trace. Mine didn't have this feature, but it was maybe 2-3 years ago. Give them a call and ask to talk to their QA department and let them know about it. The only problem I had was I missed the part about it taking 5-10 minutes before it would display any time. I though I needed a better antenna to get any action and ended up setting it aside for a few months... -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)