Date   : Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:25:20 +0100
From   : "Andrew Hancock" <andrew.hancock@...>
Subject: Re: smartwatch

I purchased a clock for the BBC Micro that used one of these chips, I think
it was manufactured my PMS, and If I recall they were based in Scotland,
this was between 1986 - 1990. This had an eprom, and underneath a carrier
with the Dallas time chip, I recently plugged it in, and from what I
remember the time was still correct! Not bad since, it hadn't been used
since the late 90s.

I originally purchased this because I also purchased the PMS Genie, which
was similiar to the PC SideKick TSR (transient and stay resident) DOS
program, it was a PIM, and you could call it up using CTRL-SHIFT-G, from
within anything in the Beeb, as the Beeb didn't had a real-time clock for
Alarm Events, and Calendar entries etc, I used it for years before finally
moving into Intel 8088 land!

I still have all the software manuals and boxes for it, as I've never
thrown-out any of my computers, I used when I was at school, so still have
the Exide Socreers, Video Genie, and all the Beebs and hardware!

Andrew
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Devries" <bdevries@...>
To: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] smartwatch


> Sprow said:
>
> > I think the underwhelming responses to your question are probably mainly
> > because you didn't define what "Smartwatch" was.
> >
>
> Sorry about that.
> A SmartWatch is a chip made by Dallas Semiconductor. It's a real-time
clock.
> Some of them were made to fit underneath a ROM chip. I thought that since
> the Beeb has a plethora of available ROM sockets, *someone* would have
> implemented a driver for one of these. The Maxim/Dallas DS1216 is supplied
> in a 28 pin socket, into which the ROM chip can be piggy-backed.
>
> --
> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>
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>
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>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sprow" <info@...>
> To: <bbc-micro@...>
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 4:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] smartwatch
>
>
> > In article <00b001c6d2d4$5554d340$0701a8c0@...>,
> >   Bob Devries <bdevries@...> wrote:
> >> Has anyone ever implemented a Smartwatch in a BBC micro?
> >
> > I think the underwhelming responses to your question are probably mainly
> > because you didn't define what "Smartwatch" was.
> >
> > Google throws up a number of pages none of which seem to be things you
> > would
> > entertain running on a BBC micro, and it's not the 80's any more so I've
> > thrown out my transparent Smart watch,
> > Sprow.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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