[Coco] Battery-Backed RTCs for CoCo?

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 10 November 2018 18:57:23 Joel Rees wrote:

> 2018年11月11日(日) 8:47、Gene Heskett さん（gheskett at shentel.net）のメッセージ:
> > On Saturday 10 November 2018 15:55:11 Mark J. Blair wrote:
> > > What are/were the most popular battery-backed real time clock
> > > accessories for the Color Computer family?
> >
> > The best one I've ever had is the one in Cloud-9's scsi controller,
> > now long out of stock.  Kept great time  powered down, lost a few
> > seconds an hour booted up. But I dissed
>
> Disassemble as opposed to disparage.

Yes. Sorry I thought everybody knew the lingo.

> Too much rap in my head from looking up songs and singers for
> students. (Insert scare quotes appropriately.)
>
I can imagine.

> > the clock module and found it was stopping
> > the clock for a couple milliseconds every 10 minutes while it
> > synched the coco's clock, changed the code to just lock the ripple
> > counter, not the whole clock. Works well right now.
> >
> > Most of the other clock chips that I've had either weren't that
> > accurate, or in the case of the disto 4n1 clock, often set to random
> > times by power up or power down noise.
> >
> > > --
> > > Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net>
> > > http://www.nf6x.net/
> >
> > --
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > --
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> >
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-- 
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>