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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Strange thing on my PC
Message-ID: <1890@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 88 17:09:30 GMT
References: <374@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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> I have an original Big Blue IBM Genuine PC, and I noticed the 
> other day that there is a device on the motherboard that resembles
> a potentiometer. It's right near the power supply connections
> on the motherboard. Does anybody know what it is/what it controls?
> 
> S.Vasudevan

I've been told it is a trimmer for the real-time clock frequency.  Real
useful if you've been finding the date and time out of sync with the
real world.


Clayton E. Cramer