Re: Having a clock without a clock card

[raymac@crl.com (Raymond D. McAnally)]

58black@cua.edu wrote:
: Hello Apple Users,

:   Is it possible to have a clock running on a Franklin Ace 500 (Apple //c
: compatible) without having a clock card??

: Mike

Yes, Nibble magazine published a program that would use the clock of the 
mouse port of a //c to emulate a ProDOS clock. They stated it would be 
about as accurate as a standard kitchen wall clock. (meaning the older 
motorized ones) Of course every time you turn off the machine it loses 
the clock, and you would have to reprogram the time and date everytime 
you turned on the machine and ran the clock program. You might be better 
off trying to locate a No Slot Clock. However, you will need to boot a 
disk with the clock system on it or use a patched version of ProDOS. By 
the way, if you aren't aware of it, the ACE 500 came stock with 256K of 
memory, but to bump it up to 512K all you need to do is add the chips. I 
strongly suggest using sockets first unless you are an expert at 
soldering. The first bank should be 41257 chips, and these need to stay 
there. The second bank can be standard 41256 chips. Also, the RAM Drive 
software for a Applied Engineering RAMWorks worked perfectly on it. I ran 
into a couple of problems with the old checkmate software. I got rid of 
my ACE 500 for two reasons. 1. It won't take any kind of 3.5 inch disk 
drive. and 2. I never could find a version of ProTerm that would run on it. 
The only reliable comm program at the time for the ACE 500 was Talk Is 
Cheap. From What I heard, ProTerm will run on an ACE 2000/2200 which is a 
clone of a //e. There may still be a user group for the ACE series. It 
was called ACES High out of Denver Colorado. Good people when I was a 
member. Being in California I couldn't make the meetings, but the 
Newsletter was well written and the BBS was full of information. Drop me 
a line if you need any more info.
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