Re: Clock Card?

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote in message
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> Bill Garber wrote:
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> > Yes, I did. I tried ProDOS users.disk and it claims there is no
> > time or date. I tried reading the eprom, however I am not sure
> > if I should read C400 or CC00. They don't display the same
> > info. It is a 2764 which is I believe 8k so I'm not sure how that
> > would read since $100 is all that will fit in the slot memory.
> > How do I find out where the firmware is loading into RAM?
> > You would think just about any clock software would find it.
> > ThunderClock software searches the slots, finds none. NSC
> > looks for it and finds none of course since it isn't looking in a
> > slot at all. ProDOS seems to find nothing. I don't know what to
> > try next.
>
> The ThunderClock doesn't use a 6821 but the Timemaster II HO does
> so it's software is a possibility. If you don't have that software
> handy, you can find it at  http://www3.telus.net/waynes/time2_h.o.

Ok, I will try to get it. Thanks.

> As for ProDOS reading the time on it, I can think of several reasons
> it might not.
> It could have been made before ProDOS.
> Some cards required a patch to ProDOS before it could read them.
> Did you have a battery in the card when you tried checking the time?

I had assumed the same and looked for and tried several programs.
Yes, I do have a battery in it.

> A 2764 is a really large EPROM for a clock card. Even my Corvus
> Systems clock card which has the time setting utility on the EPROM
> only uses a 2732.

I have 2 of these and the other has a 2708, weird.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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