Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!caip!lll-crg!lll-lcc!ucdavis!ucbvax!jade!ucbopal!mwm From: mwm@ucbopal.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll be mellow when I'm dead) Meyer) Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: ATIME: Amiga Clock Backup (READ THIS!!) Message-ID: <672@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Wed, 7-May-86 14:44:59 EDT Article-I.D.: jade.672 Posted: Wed May 7 14:44:59 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 11-May-86 04:49:25 EDT References: <59700031@isucs1.UUCP> <1425@pucc-i> Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: mwm@ucbopal.UUCP (Mike (I'll be mellow when I'm dead) Meyer) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 33 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!!! Just another note to let people know that I've had mine for months, and had no problem with it. > 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! This is the only report I've seen of the problem. From your (very brief) description, it sounds like your friends Amiga is as likely to be flakey as his A-Time box. But beware debuggin over the phone (or the net!). > 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! The hack job was not putting a time of year clock in the Amiga in the first place. Now, given that you've got this piece of hardware that AmigaDOS doesn't know about, and you want to read the time from it and set the system clock whenever you reboot, can you think of a BETTER place to put it than startup-sequence? It's certainly beats having 'echo "Use preferences tool to set the the date."' or whatever was there (I'm GLAD I don't see that anymore!).