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Article #10566Re: Real Time Clock Chip source
From: Jim Budler
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 1990 20:20
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 1990 20:20
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tejtemw@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk (EARL WILLIAMS) writes:
>In article <1990Mar15.070202.1914@eda.com> budler@eda.com (Jim Budler) writes:
>>My Antique Mac has developed a fibrillated clock. It jumps to random other
>>era's, or dies completely February 6, 1940 at 6:28:15 AM.
>Sounds like your battery has run dead. The clock chip is probably fine. In
>order to keep time while the power to the Mac is off, there is a little
>battery inside your case. When it dies, your clock starts "fibrillating."
Sigh...
No.
I can read a voltmeter and an oscilloscope.
Either the clock chip or it's crystal is bad. I have a new crystal, but was
hoping to find a clock chip before cracking the case again.
jim
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!mintaka!oliveb!orc!decwrl!eda.com!jim From: jim@eda.com (Jim Budler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Real Time Clock Chip source Message-ID: <1990Mar16.202040.12296@eda.com> Date: 16 Mar 90 20:20:40 GMT References: <1990Mar15.070202.1914@eda.com> <1990Mar16.103331.22938@isis.educ.lon.ac.uk> Distribution: comp Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., DFE, Santa Clara, CA. Lines: 26