[Coco] Real Time Clock for the Coco

[Steve Strowbridge]

That was a great topic kind of dissecting the actual RTC chip and the
battery for it, but for clarification, that discussion was on our CoCo talk
which is a live video show, don't want to confuse it with the actual CoCo
Crew Podcast which is a monthly audio podcast.


On May 7, 2017 8:19 PM, "Robert Gault" <robert.gault at att.net> wrote:

> Richard Lorbieski wrote:
>
>>
>> During yesterday's Coco podcat, I asked about having a Real Time Clock
>> (RTC) for the Coco. Back in the day, I had a Burke and Burke XT hard drive
>> interface with a built in RTC. It was one less thing to enter on bootup
>> (unattended boot).
>>
>> I looked at hardware options and it occurred to me...
>>
>> Why not get the clock info from drivewire? The PC already has a RTC and
>> it usually gets updated via the Internet.
>>
>> No hardware mods need, just a patch or utility.
>>
>> Is this possible?
>>
>>
>>
> Richard,
>
> It certainly would be possible as OS-9 users can currently access the DW
> clock under OS-9 with the clock2_dw module. I've not bothered to write a
> program to read the DW clock from Basic as I have a SmartWatch(c) on my
> Coco in an RS-232 Pak. I wrote a program that creates a new system function
> DATE$ which reads the SmartWatch. My program SWREAD.BAS will read or set
> the clock and install DATE$. It can also zero out the clock so it can be
> used as a stopwatch.
>
> I'd bet that several people on Maltedmedia have already written the
> program you are asking about to access the DW clock from Basic.
>
> Robert
>
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