Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!ncar!ames!killer!pollux!dalsqnt!usl!usl-pc!jpdres13 From: jpdres13@usl-pc.UUCP (John Joubert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: clocks for the cartridge port Keywords: Clock cards Message-ID: <1329@usl-pc.UUCP> Date: 19 May 88 12:39:09 GMT References: <3275@hcr.UUCP> <4340@dasys1.UUCP> <5481@utah-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: jpdres13@usl-pc.UUCP (John Joubert) Organization: Univ. of Southwestern La., Lafayette Lines: 27 -------------------------- I own a Logikron Clock Card and it is one of the types that supposedly cannot be opened for battery change. This is not true. Logikron had two types of cards which looked very similiar, the first models were sealed and could not be gotten into, and the second model came out as a response to some griping. The second type can be opened with a small standard screwdriver, the battery is then easy to change. This was a little shocking to find, because even the manual that came with the product mentioned that the battteries could not be changed, and the cartridge should be sent back to the factory in 4 or 5 years to be fixed. I think that the manual was never updated to the new cartridge. A friend of mine has the Navarrone "Time-Keeper" cartridge, it has a slot on the outside of it to allow you to still put things in the cartridge slot of your ST even though you have the clock cartridge in. After the time is read from the cartridge, it disconnects itself and runs the lines straight out of the back of the cartridge to the next cartridge. I spotted this one in an ST magazine (Atari Explorer 2 mos ago I think) for $20 from a mail order company. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Joubert | /\ | /\ | _ jpdres13@usl-pc.USL or ... | \|<>|>|> \|<>|>|><`|`| ut-sally!usl!usl-pc!jpdres13 |-----/|-------/|---------------------- GEnie: J.JOUBERT | \/ \/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------