[Coco] Survey of Coco realtime clock users
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Nov 30 19:32:14 EST 2007
On Friday 30 November 2007, Robert Gault wrote:
>I'd like to get an idea of how many people have some type of realtime
>clock installed in a Coco system. Don't bother replying regards emulators.
>
>Indicate what chip you have and where it is installed. My reason for
>asking, besides curiosity, is to find out how many users are subject to
>battery wear out and clock failure.
>
>For example, I have a Smartwatch DS1216 (sold at one time by Tandy)
>installed in my RS-232 pak instead of the ROM. Just had to replace the
>battery.
>
I have one in my TC^3 controller, and had one in the original B&B, and in the
later SC-II+4n1. I don't recall ever replacing a battery in any of them.
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