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From: kim@mips.UUCP
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Subject: Re: ATIME: Amiga Clock Backup (READ THIS!!)
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Date: Sun, 4-May-86 17:39:43 EDT
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>>	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!!!
>> [ ... ]
>>					Craig Norborg (aka Doc Pierce)

> 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).
					[ from Mike@3Com ]

I am also very satisfied with my A-Time.  I have the serial port hooked
up to a Hayes Smartmodem 1200, and the parallel going to an Epson FX-100.
No trouble whatsoever with either device.  (A-Time was installed in early
January, BTW).

There *have* been a few times that the ReadRTC routine supplied with
A-Time could not read the clock;  "jibberish" gets returned for the date
and time (this is documented).  This has happened about 3 or 4 times since
I installed A-Time, and seems to be completely "random" in nature  (I've
been waiting for 2 months for it to happen again, so I can get more info
on the failure-mode, but its been solid all that time).

The above problem *is* a pain when it does occur (and also when changing
to/from Daylight Saving Time), as once you've executed either SetRTC or
ReadRTC, you cannot re-execute either one again without doing a reset
(Cntl-Amiga-Amiga), as the RTC has now become "invisible".  Sure would be
nice to have a way to just reset the port so the RTC is visible again ...
anyone know how to do this?  Is there a "ResetRTC" routine out there
somewhere?

Finally, the folks at A-Time (especially Bambi), were very helpful when
I was talking to them last December ... I suppose I should talk to them
about the above problem, but like I said, I wanted to collect some more
specific information on the failure-mode ...

/kim


P.S.  I have no connection with A-Time ... I'm just pleased with their
      product.
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