[net.micro.apple] Mountain CPS card help?

simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard) (07/05/84)

	   Our current application at Loral Instrumentation uses an
      Apple ][+ computer and software written which requires the use
      of a Mountain Computer CPS card.  This card was chosen for its
      clock, which at one time was apparently some sort of a standard 
      (or could we have been deceived).  Whatever the answer to that
      question, it seems that Mountain no longer makes this card, and
      every distributer contacted so far has no more of these in stock.
	   If you have one and would like to sell it, or know of where
      one (or two) can be found, please let us know.  Another option
      is to find a different card, probably a clock only, which has
      the same command structure as the Mountain clock.
			 
			 Thanks in advance.
			 Please contact one of the following
			 NICE people if you can help.....

				Pat Quigley x-4624
				Jim Roseveare x-4572
				619-560-5888

-- 
Ray Simard
Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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Thomka.es@XEROX.ARPA (07/09/84)

I had a Mountain Computer Real Time Clock, called "The Clock".  It was
the first of all Real Time Clocks for the Apple, and it was the pseudo
"standard" of clocks for the Apple.  But I sold it because it was a
large board that had a lot of chips that, when using the batteries
(mounted on the back of the board), the power would only last for FOUR
days.  In reality, the battery power was only adequate for two days,
though, because after the first two days the power was so low the clock
was no longer even reasonabily accurate.

The latest clock now-a-days that has some nice features and supposedly
has become the "standard" has several different output modes, is the
ThunderWare Clock (also has a time output format that is the same as
"The Clock").  It also is supposed to be the biggest seller of clocks,
thus also kind of making it the new "standard".

You might want to look into that.

	Chuck