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From: mykes@3comvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: ATIME: Amiga Clock Backup (READ THIS!!)
Message-ID: <490@3comvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-May-86 13:48:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: 3comvax.490
Posted: Fri May  2 13:48:38 1986
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Reply-To: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
Organization: 3Com Corp; Mountain View, CA
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In article <1425@pucc-i> aic@pucc-i.UUCP (Craig Norborg aka Doc Pierce) writes:
>
>	BEWARE!  I guess I should let it be known that you MAY be taking
>    your Amigas life in your hands if you plug one of these in!!!
>    A freind bought one from a local store and had lots of trouble with
>    it (i.e. Clock not working, serial port flakey, etc...)  He didn't
>    think much of it, except for the fact that it only happened when his
>    clock was plugged in.  Well, now his parallel port doesn't work at all,
>    the company has ignored all letters and calls so far, and he has
>    a crippled Amiga...  From the salesman that sold it, I found out
>    that there has been lots of problems with this nifty little device!
>	Also, as for how the parallel port reads it, you have to have
>    their boot up software in you startup-sequence for it to work! Sounds
>    like a real hack job to me!
>	
>-- 
>					Craig Norborg (aka Doc Pierce)
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Allow me to add my $.02 as a satisfied A-Time owner.  I have had an A-Time
backed up clock on my Amiga for a couple of months now, and I have had no
problems.  However, I do not have a printer connected (I expect that it
would work fine though).  There are two programs that make A-Time work:
SetRTC and ReadRTC, which set the backed up clock and set the amiga clock
from the backed up clock, respectively.  I did have some problems with a
"homebrew" cable that connects my Amiga to my PC, but I have no doubts it
was the cable wiring that caused the A-Time not to work (screwed up the
time).  After two months, again, no problems, works like a champ.

When I had the problems with the cable, I called A-Time, and got prompt
immediate service.  The folks at A-Time also provided me with some Public
Domain software that I haven't seen posted anywhere around here, and will
be glad to send updates, etc.

I am not affiliated in any way with the A-Time folks in any way, just thought
I would post a different perception of their product.  Maybe I got lucky and
got a good one...