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From: ross@ulowell.UUCP (Ross)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: ATIME: Amiga Clock Backup (READ THIS!!)
Message-ID: <306@ulowell.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-May-86 17:33:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: ulowell.306
Posted: Mon May  5 17:33:21 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 10-May-86 13:17:56 EDT
References: <59700031@isucs1.UUCP> <1425@pucc-i> <490@3comvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ross@ulowell.UUCP (Ross)
Organization: University of Lowell
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In article <490@3comvax.UUCP> mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz) writes:
>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!!!
	... general dislike of the product ...
>
>Allow me to add my $.02 as a satisfied A-Time owner.  I have had an A-Time
>	... general like of the product...

If I might also add my 2 cents.  I have one of these and have not had a bit
of trouble with it, save that the directions were a bit vague.  I have
an Okimate 20 hanging off of it and I can do graphics dumps without
problems.  The way the device seems to work is that a read of the time
is made by a program that you must insert in your startup, then after one
read the device will shut up until a C-A-A.  This can be deduced by the
fact that you can only read from the device once, if you try twice you
get a device not found error; this error is the same one you get if you
attempt to read the time without the device present.  The device is passive;
it does not draw power from the machine, so its really nothing more than
an intelligent cable, I doubt that it could damage a serial port.  

I have no affiliations with any of the above companies.

							Ross