Re: What is the best clock card?

["Ernest" <leucoplast@seanet.NOSPAM.com>]

"Mark Percival" <markREMOVE@syndicomm.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 16:49:56 GMT, "Ernest"
> <leucoplast@seanet.NOSPAM.com> wrote:
>
> >I know that there are several good clock cards for the Apple II but I was
> >wondering if there is one that is superior to the others?
>
> Interesting you should ask about this.  I recently found a source for
> "No Slot Clock" chips.
>
> What is a "No Slot Clock"?
>
> - It is exactly what it say it is.  It gives your Apple IIe or IIc a
> ProDOS compatible clock without the usage of a slot.
> - Yes they are still available.
>
> http://www.syndicomm.com/~mark/NSC.jpg
>
> From the photo above you can see that it is a clock chip inside of a
> 28-pin ROM socket.  All you do is carefully pull a 28-pin ROM from
> your machine (CD or EF ROM), place the NSC into the ROM socket and
> then replace your removed ROM into the socket on top of the chip.
> Patch ProDOS, run the utility to set the clock and your done!
>
> These will work in any Apple IIe (enhanced or not), IIc or IIc+.  The
> lack of a 28-pin ROM in a II or II+ prevents it from working there.
>
> I recently picked up one to try and put it in my Platinum IIe.  Works
> great.  It also keeps track of the year so you don't have to patch
> ProDOS every 7 years.

I used one of these in my Tandy 1000hx but I didn't know that it would work
in a IIe. I would be interested in purchasing one of these. I don't remember
the one for my HX being expensive at all.

Will these clocks work on Dos 3.3, CP/M and Pascal as well?