[48226] in Cypherpunks
Re: Time codes for PCs (fromn German Banking)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Townsend)
Fri Jan 26 21:34:23 1996
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 21:26:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Townsend <townsend@smokin.fly.net>
To: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <m0tfyb0-00090XC@pacifier.com>
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
