Re: Future Time

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Sat, 11 Jul 1998 22:27:03 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Garst R. Reese wrote:

> I have never understood why my stick-on 59 cent (CDN) LCD clock keeps
> better time than my $3k laptop. I use it to tell me when to run rdate.
> Maybe Analogic could design a clock to plug into a serial/|| port that
> actually keeps good time, has a nice display, and updates the hwclock.
> Maybe I'll do it myself :) A mouse that tells time?
> --
> Garst

Don't laugh! You could put a damn good clock into a keyboard. The
keyboard controller generates interrupts. Scan-codes are cheap and
ones not understood are ignored. The keyboard could interrupt once
a second with a `scan-code` of the correct time.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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