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Re: For the fun of it



Tony Cianfaglione wrote:
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 nogard@cishollywood.com wrote:


I own one of the clock IIc (just the hardware), was curious
if there is any software or documentation someplace I could grab them?


I had a small manual but it's packed away with some other stuff right now.
All I did was put a 9 volt battery in it, plugged it in serial port 1 and
it worked.  AppleWorks 5.1, PublishIt4 and several other programs all
recognized it immediately.  I can't recall if I had a disk with software
on it but, if I did, it must have just been extra utilities as the clock
works fine without it.
>
You set the clock with a switch when you first boot and then turn the
switch to the other setting and that keeps the time counting.  It time
stamps your BAS/BIN/TXT files too as well as date stamping them, if you
modify them while running the clock.

There must have been a ProDOS installation program, since the
native clock driver won't see a clock on a serial port.  Once
ProDOS recoginizes a clock, all programs that use the ProDOS time
functions will also use it.

A custom utility must have also been provided to set the clock,
since this is not a standard function.

-michael

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