First computer with real-time clock?

From: Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com>
Date: Wed Aug 4 14:57:12 2004

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 13:05, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

> > (Wouldn't a hardware manual and/or programers manual help here?)
>
> Indeed. I've read through the Manual of Operation for the 650 and it
> makes no mention or reference anywhere about any sort of timer feature at
> all.

But in the spirit of the times, does any hardware facility have any
time-related side effect that could have been exploited to extract time
from? (Besides the obvious calibrated-subroutine hack.) Or does the
feature have to be explicitly a "time-keeping" hardware facility?
Received on Wed Aug 04 2004 - 14:57:12 BST