Is this true?? (TI & watches)

On 21 Feb, 2007, at 18:01, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote: I don't think I'd call it a wall clock, but I have a clock like that in the computer room. It is octagonal and painted pink, so not my favourite, but I used to use it to keep an eye on the time so I could top up the diesel in the 3 Phase generator which used to run the mainframe. I also have a clockwork car clock which gets wound by the movement of the car. That's way off topic though. I wonder which was the first computer with a real time clock, what year and how it was implemented. I imagine it was invented primarily for charging for computer time. I think the first machine I programmed, the IBM 7094 had one because if your job ran over its limit time (30 seconds IIRC), the job was aborted. Unless that was the operator looking at his wrist watch! Roger Holmes