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From: schuster@panix.uucp (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: SMT clock-on-a-chip
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.162654.13606@panix.uucp>
Date: 9 Jan 91 16:26:54 GMT
References: <1991Jan8.215304.6785@mks.com>
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In article <1991Jan8.215304.6785@mks.com> scott@mks.com (Scott Nicol) writes:
>
>   I recently aquired a computer which has one of those new-fangled
>(well, relatively) battery-backed clocks on a single chip (actually,
>a chip embedded in a ROM chip socket).  Unfortunately, I can't find
>the software used for setting and restoring the time and date.

 It's the Dallas Semiconductor DS1216E Smartwatch. Radio Shack sells it
under the name SmartWatch, and furnishes MS-DOS software to set and
read it.

 I once knew how this worked, but suffice it to say it's not just "read"
like a regular ROM. You need the software.



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