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From: 840445m@aucs.UUCP (Mic Mac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Big Problems with A1000
Keywords: clock broke
Message-ID: <1699@aucs.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 89 19:57:07 GMT
References: <1683@aucs.UUCP> <2319@ritcsh.UUCP>
Reply-To: 840445m@aucs.UUCP (Mic Mac)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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In article <2319@ritcsh.UUCP> franks@ritcsh.UUCP (Francis Shea) writes:
>In article <1683@aucs.UUCP> 840445m@aucs.UUCP (Mic Mac) writes:
>>  What I mean is this, when I run any sort of clock
>>program, time does not pass.
>
>Thats funny, my clock works fine, i think, i've never tried it......
>i get by just fine with a watch.      
>who cares about save times anyway?????
>
>frank shea
>
No. No. No.  Listen and you shall here.  Maybe I was ambiguous when I first
stated my problem so I'll try again:

On a 'normal' Amiga (e.g. the way mine was a few months ago), when you run
the clock program, you can watch the seconds tick away, one second will 
elapse on the computer clock for each second of real time.  On a f**ked up
Amiga (e.g. the way mine is now), you run the clock program and you watch
one second tick by on the computer ... oh ... about every two or three hours
or so of real time.  

Note that I do not mean a battery backed clock or anything like that.  I just
mean the clock inside that ticks a second every second.  Please, this is
not a flame to anyone who misunderstood me ... maybe I was unclear in 
what I meant.

Now, if anyone can offer any assistance, I would be very grateful. 
Oh, BTW, I did enjoy reading the person's reply to this message concerning
stopping time and swiping all the -020's and -030's from the Macs.  It
was quite humorous.
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