Re: ProClock clock card question.

[Dennis Jenkins <dennis@usb.com>]

	I'm fairly sure that it is not Y2K compliant...  It has a Motorolla
6818 clock chip in it (2 digit year I think).  But I can set the
date/time correctly and set the year to 1982 or something, right?  Then
the day-of-week will be correct.

	Oh well.

	Also- Is the clock in the IIgs Y2K compliant?  I just picked up a IIgs
at the goodwill store last night.  It boots just fine, but the keyboard
cable is missing (which is a different story, and soon to be
corrected).  Does the IIgs use any extra battery backed RAM other then
the clock chip?  If so, what is stored in those few bytes?  (the 6818
found in the ProCLock card and many older PCs has 64 bytes total RAM, 14
used by the clock itself, 50 left over to store the CMOS configuration
in).

"Bryan aka R.I.P." wrote:
> 
> Before investing the time in hunting down the software, first make sure the clock
> card is even Y2K compliant. Almost every card I've run into chokes on 2000 dates,
> or doesn't even allow for 2000 to be entered as a date.
> 
> Bryan
> gmezero @ gz.bomb.com
> 
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:06:25 -0500, Dennis Jenkins <dennis@usb.com> wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >       Arghhh.  I was going through all of my Apple II floppies to see what
> >survived the bit rot from 7 years of storage.  Among my casualties is my
> >ProClock disk.  I have no (known) way to set the clock on my card.  I
> >have no idea if the company that made it is still in business (I'm at
> >work now, and I forgot to look up that data when I was at home last
> >night).
> >       Anyway, does anyone know where I can acquire the software necessary to
> >make my hardware function correctly?
> >
> >--
> >dennis@usb.com                           Universal Savings Bank.
> >
> >The three most dangerous things are a programmer with a soldering iron,
> >a
> >manager who codes, and a user who gets ideas.

-- 
dennis@usb.com                           Universal Savings Bank.

The three most dangerous things are a programmer with a soldering iron,
a
manager who codes, and a user who gets ideas.