Re: Software for Apple II Clock Cards

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

In article <4ocnl2$q3m@crl4.crl.com>, Matthew Pearce <mpearce@crl.com> wrote:
>Tom Kelly (tomk@pro-nsdapple.cts.com) wrote:
>:  I was going through my collection of Apple "treasures today.
>:  I have a ThunderClock Plus and a  Mountain Computer Apple Clock.
>:  I have the cards and manuals, but the software is incomplete/
>:  I have a DOS 3.3 disk that contains what seems to be a mixture
>:  of the software from the two different clock cards for the Apple II.
>:  Does anyone know what files are needed for each of the above cards?
>:  I'd like to get a complete copy of the software for each of my cards.
>:  
>I just found one of the Mountain Hardware Clocks... (the top of the card 
>reads Apple Clock (r) (c) 1978 Mountain Hardware Inc.) I replaced the 9 v 
>battery and installed the card, but ProDOS doesn't recognize it.  Do I
>need to patch ProDOS?

Yep, only Thunderclocks and those compatible with 'em work with unmodified
ProDOS versions prior to 1.2. That and later versions support Thunderclocks
and IIgs clocks.
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