[Coco] Survey of Coco realtime clock users

[Phill Harvey-Smith]

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.

Don't have a realtime clock in any of my CoCos/Dragons but when I saw 
this thread, I was reminded of a page I found recently whilst playing 
with one of my old IBM PS/2 machines, that details replacing the 
batteries for some of those Dalas modules. The page can be found here :-

http://www.gilanet.com/ohlandl/misc/rework_ds1287_rtc.html

Hope that's usefull :)

Cheers.

Phill.

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Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !

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