On Fri, 26 Jan 1996, jim bell wrote:
(BTW, if anybody knows how to easily connect it to the pc, or has the appropriate software, please tell me The task isn't difficult from a hardware standpoint; it's just RS-232 serial ASCII timecode at about 9600 bps which either continuously retransmits or on request. The problem is the software: How, exactly, do I INTERFACE such a serial input to the existing computer/RTC combination? (Don't tell me to plug it into an unused serial jack! I'm not stupid. I'm not a programmer, and I don't play one on TV! (I know gates, flops, op amps, A/D, D/A, microprocessor hardware design, even some Z-80 assy language, RF, and I've programmed in Fortran, Basic, APL, Algol, PL/1, Pascal, LISP, but not recently and I don't enjoy it!)
You'll probably want to look at the XNTP code at ftp://louie.udel.edu/pub/ntp There's plenty of good toys and code for time geeks, radio clock info, etc. -cpt townsend@fly.net