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From: tkelso@blackbird.afit.af.mil (Thomas S. Kelso)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Reading clock from AST Six-Pack
Keywords: Clock card, AST, Six-Pack
Message-ID: <1717@blackbird.afit.af.mil>
Date: 31 Oct 90 14:39:12 GMT
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology; WPAFB, OH
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I am working with a local junior high school to set up a system which captures
data from the NOAA polar-orbiting weather satellites and displays it on an IBM
PC.  At this point, most of the hardware to support the project has been
donated by individuals and local businesses.  The PC (donated by Rockwell)
works just fine but does not have a hardware clock.  It does, however, have an
AST Six-Pack card which has an onboard clock.  Our problem is that we received
no documentation whatsoever on how to use this card.

What we need are some basic instructions on how to access this clock so that
we can write a program (using Turbo Pascal, for instance) to read the clock
and set the time and date in DOS.  If anyone can provide us these instructions
or a source for the documentation, I would be most grateful.  Please let me
know if you need any further information.
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Dr TS Kelso                           Assistant Professor of Space Operations
tkelso@blackbird.afit.af.mil          Air Force Institute of Technology