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From: tejtemw@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk (EARL WILLIAMS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Real Time Clock Chip source
Message-ID: <1990Mar16.103331.22938@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Mar 90 10:33:31 GMT
References: <1990Mar15.070202.1914@eda.com>
Reply-To: tejtemw@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk (EARL WILLIAMS)
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In article <1990Mar15.070202.1914@eda.com> budler@eda.com (Jim Budler) writes:
>My Antique Mac has developed a fibrillated clock. It jumps to random other
>era's, or dies completely February 6, 1940 at 6:28:15 AM.

Sounds like your battery has run dead.  The clock chip is probably fine.  In
order to keep time while the power to the Mac is off, there is a little
battery inside your case.  When it dies, your clock starts "fibrillating."

The clock time is just one of several values which are stored in PRAM and
sustained by this battery.
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