Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.dal.ca!dalcsug!euloth
From: euloth@dalcsug.UUCP (George Seto)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Reading time and date without using bios or dos ?
Summary: Any Software, PD or Shareware, for setting/reading the Smartwatch
Message-ID: <285@dalcsug.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 89 13:55:43 GMT
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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References: <4368@okstate.UUCP> <17841@gatech.edu> <891@mannix.iros1.UUCP>


I am not an IBM user and this question is related to yours. I know that
not all IBM machines and clones have a Time/Date Clock builtin to the
system. Like my Atari ST, a device called the SmartWatch is available
for it. This appears to be a socket and there is a version which fits
under the standard 28 pin ROM. This device can either be sold by 
electronics supply houses by itself or with commercial software for it
to be set. The software needed for the device needs to be able to set
date/time and also to read the date/time. I have PD software available
for the Atari ST, and was wondering if there was software in the Public
Domain for the IBM people as well. I don't need the software, but I 
would appreciate knowing the names of any PD or Shareware programs 
out in the IBM world for such an date/time device. Note the nice part
of this date/time socket is that it is battery backed up with a lithium
battery so it won't require changing for several years, and is priced
quite reasonably. In Canada, it is around $25/$30 for the socket itself
from an Electronics supplier. BTW if anyone sends me Mail about any 
software they know about, could they also advise if sources are available
for any of it? Thanks in advance.
  


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