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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Adding a clock to an XT
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.025836.25762@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 02:58:36 GMT
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>>    I've seen ads in the past for a "no-slot clock", to add a
>> clock/calendar to an XT.  My mother-in-law would like to do
>> this, but I can no longer find such devices available?  Are
>> they still made?  Thanks!

>Check with Radio Shack.  They run $40 or so.  Check the device
>before you buy it and make sure you have an available ROM socket
>for it, or that it is the same pin setup as your system's ROM.
>It will plug into the ROM socket and the system ROM plugs in
>on top of it.  It will often work with any ROM in the machine
>(sometimes the hard drive controller's, for instance).

I looked in my JDR catalog and sure enough, they
have one for $29.95. It plugs into a ROM slot and
the ROM plugs on top of it. Says its compatible
with MS DOS, Apple II (!) Franklin and Laser (what-
ever they are) computers. Has a 10-year lithium
battery, and keeps track of leap years, leap months(!)
leap hours (!!) and leap seconds (these do exist, 
but since the clock doesn't receive WWV I don't 
know how it keeps track!)..

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