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From: silber@batcomputer.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: PCAT Real-time Clock Problem
Message-ID: <1171@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: Mon, 6-Oct-86 09:27:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: batcompu.1171
Posted: Mon Oct  6 09:27:25 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 7-Oct-86 23:35:54 EDT
References: <372@briar.UUCP> <424@unc.unc.UUCP> <843@isrnix.UUCP>
Reply-To: silber@batcomputer.UUCP (Jeffrey Silber)
Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <843@isrnix.UUCP> mr@isrnix.UUCP (mr) writes:
>
>now this pc has _never_ kept its own time (or anything else important for
>that matter :-) and i'd like to ask what is its purpose?  do they ALL not
>work?  what does the diagnostics setup have to do with it? 

The PC-AT has a battery which keeps enough power around so that the clock
settings and the set-up information does not get lost.  When that battery
starts to die you start getting time and set-up errors.

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