[Coco] Real Time Clock for the Coco

Brett Gordon beretta42 at gmail.com
Sun May 7 19:44:36 EDT 2017


Yup.  the Drivewire 3 protocol specifies a time request.  Nitros and Fuzix
both can set/run there clocks based on dw.

brett

On May 7, 2017 7:24 PM, "Richard Lorbieski" <rlorbieski at gmail.com> 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?
>
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