Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!bronze!silver!ntaib From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) Subject: Re: Adding a clock to an XT Message-ID: <1991Apr11.025836.25762@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington References: Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 02:58:36 GMT Lines: 28 >> I've seen ads in the past for a "no-slot clock", to add a >> clock/calendar to an XT. My mother-in-law would like to do >> this, but I can no longer find such devices available? Are >> they still made? Thanks! >Check with Radio Shack. They run $40 or so. Check the device >before you buy it and make sure you have an available ROM socket >for it, or that it is the same pin setup as your system's ROM. >It will plug into the ROM socket and the system ROM plugs in >on top of it. It will often work with any ROM in the machine >(sometimes the hard drive controller's, for instance). I looked in my JDR catalog and sure enough, they have one for $29.95. It plugs into a ROM slot and the ROM plugs on top of it. Says its compatible with MS DOS, Apple II (!) Franklin and Laser (what- ever they are) computers. Has a 10-year lithium battery, and keeps track of leap years, leap months(!) leap hours (!!) and leap seconds (these do exist, but since the clock doesn't receive WWV I don't know how it keeps track!).. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iskandar Taib | The only thing worse than Peach ala Internet: NTAIB@AQUA.UCS.INDIANA.EDU | Frog is Frog ala Peach Bitnet: NTAIB@IUBACS ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------