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[BRIAN.HAMMACK@rook.wa.com (brian hammack)]

 Dreamer cracked the whip and commanded:

 D| Ok, I'm vexed.  Remember my post about wanting to use the NSC in my
  | Platinum //e?  Well, I got responses from people saying it could be
  | done.  So, I just went about trying again, and guess what?  No luck.

Hiya, I have one in my old //e at the moment and it's working fine.  I
don't know what hardware differences there are between the old //e and
the Platinum, but here are some things I've learned (and yes, I read
T.Diaz's post before continuing):

The best utility for the clock isn't the one which comes with the clock,
it is SMARTWATCH, buried somewhere on Cleveland Freenet (John Bastin had
to give me directions because it's in 5 levels deep, in binscii format!)
and should be elsewhere as well.  I could binscii the program and send
your way if you want.  The anecdote I told here a few months ago:

I popped my NSC, so it seemed, by control-resetting while the modem was
resetting when I was playing with Prime BBS.  So for a couple months I
was POKEing the date/time in and not running the NS.CLOCK.SYSTEM file.
By accident after a couple months I launched the driver and it WORKED.
Clock acknowledged.  But I couldn't reset it because the year the NSC
had was "I:" instead of a number, and NS.CLOCK.UTILS wouldn't touch it.
But SMARTWATCH.SYSTEM did, and I reset the clock and haven't had a
moment's trouble with it since.  [Moral of the story:  if your clock
crashes, wait a month, so it'll give you a day and month to work with
again; the year can only be fixed with SMARTWATCH unless you wait...]

Now then.  It's true what T.Diaz said -- you must turn off any accel-
erator and not abort the util program.  The NSC goes in CD ROM on an old
//e or CF ROM on your Platinum, then the chip in the NSC, notch toward
keyboard (and make sure all pins of the chip and NSC are in the holes).
I get the feeling you've installed the NSC correctly, but it's whatever
date it already has in it that's messing you up (because, as said,
NS.CLOCK.UTILS will _not_ work if the year is non-numeric, as it becomes
in a crash).  Hope all this yakking helps...            << mushroom >>

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