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From: Roland_Henry_Pesch@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: clocks for the cartridge port
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Date: 14 May 88 17:24:02 GMT
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Sandra Loosemore (sandra@cs.utah.edu, sandra@utah-cs.uucp) asks:

>On the subject of clock chips, does anybody have recommendations for
>a clock chip that plugs into the cartridge port? 
>               [ . . . ]                              Is there anything
>better on the market?

I was long a satisfied user of Navarone Industries' "TimeKeeper" cartridge.
It plugs into the cartridge port, uses a battery in a removable holder,
and even has another cartridge port so that you can use other cartridges
piggybacked on it.

The DA it comes with can be used or not, at your option---it was fairly
decent, but eventually I switched to a freeware clock that was floating
around the local BB's.

The only reason I quit using my TimeKeeper is that I acquired a Magic Sac
cartridge, which as part of its Mac emulation has a clock...  it's not
quite as good a clock as the one in the TimeKeeper, but the Magic Sac
does a number of other things for me too--  8-)       .

Can't give you Navarone's address; they've moved since I bought my
TimeKeeper.  But I think they're in Mountain View, CA, somewhere.

Oh: I should mention that the first cartridge I had quit working mysteriously
after several months---maybe even a year, I forget.  The people at Navarone
(At least the ones doing it then: this is when they were in Sonora CA)
were extremely helpful and rushed me a new cartridge immediately in
exchange for the bad one.  As I recall, it was only some time after the
exchange that I realized the warranty period had actually expired when
this happened---Navarone never even brought up the issue.  Good folk.

          /Roland Pesch (pesch@cup.portal.com)