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- From: easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
- Subject: Re: How to put a CLock in A1200
- Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering
- Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 18:39:41 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan04.183941.23751@zds-oem.zds.com>
- References: <1993Jan03.145206.7349@zds-oem.zds.com> <1993Jan4.025626.12321@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan4.025626.12321@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> zarthac@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons) writes:
- >Jeff Easton (easton@zds-oem.zds.com) wrote:
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- [...]
-
- >: Sheesh. Lighten up. All the pads for a real time clock and battery
- >: are there on the motherboard. It looks like Engineering did the
- >: Right Thing (tm) and accounted for the possibility. Its the marketing
- >: guys who told them to de-populated it and they arent on the net.
- >
- >How easy would a DIY project be to put in your own clock?
-
- The easiest would be to get the components and solder them onto the
- board at the locations provided. The clock chip is an SOIC surface
- mount part though. The next best solution for people uncomfortable
- with surface mount parts but are good at wire wrapping (:-) is a
- small daughter board that plugs into the provided header. Either
- way, if you dont know what your doing I wouldnt advise you try it.
- Hopefully, somebody will come out with a $49.00 module that you can
- plug in yourself.
-
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- (__ (__ Zenith Data Systems j.easton@mi04.zds.com
- ___) ___) Saint Joseph, Mich. easton@andrews.edu
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