From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!mel
Newsgroups: net.analog
Title: Re: Digital Temp. Controller bd
Article-I.D.: houxm.372
Posted: Sun Apr 10 11:46:56 1983
Received: Tue Apr 12 01:17:26 1983
References: mcnc.1629

Chip, just because something can be done, is needed, and would sell is no
reason to believe it will be made.  Good luck on your quest, but I wouldn't
give bets on you finding anything.  I am wearing a digital watch that cost $13
and tells the time and date, is a stopwatch and musical alarm.  A & P was
selling a plastic version for $1.50 (with a coupon), and there are pens
available with the time and date for about $3.  Yet, in all the many millions
of $$$$$$$'s worth of computers here, there isn't a single clock chip!  We are
constantly having to fight the file creation times that are off  --  sometimes
by whole days!  Bet the Japanese computers when they arrive will be able to
tell time (and maybe even the temperature).   Mel Haas  ,  houxm!mel