Re: clock cards

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <dempson-2107961451130001@dempson.actrix.gen.nz>,
David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
>In article <4smv6l$q86@herald.concentric.net>, gtolar@concentric.net
>(Glynne Tolar) wrote:
>
>>ProDOS specs, bleh!  Year calculated from day of week and month.  Sheesh!  
>>Leave it to Apple to come up with this crap.
>
>They didn't.  They decided to support the most popular clock card (the
>Thunderclock), and the Thunderclock doesn't report the year when you do
>the simple call to put the date and time in the input buffer.

I was thinking it was because of the Thunderclock hardware but wasn't sure
how.

>On the IIgs, or with most third-party clock drivers, ProDOS doesn't need
>to be patched, because the clock isn't so brain-dead that it doesn't
>report the year.

Well you do have to patch ProDOS to read another clock card of course. I have
an Applied Ingenuity Applied Time II card, which ProDOS can use without
being patched, and it can return the year too. AI made good stuff, too bad
they went belly up.
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