ticker is tapped off the 9VAC, but that's not
essential to normal
operations, and in fact, I think you'd have a hard time finding
anything that used the TOD on the CIAs anyway.
GEOS.
Ah, well there you go then. That's too new for my experience. I had
no idea it used them.
So... add to the list... no 9VAC == no TOD ticker == GEOS issues.
Do you know if GEOS would not work, or would you get stagnant
timestamps on your files, or what?
I imagine it would still boot, but yes, timestamps, the clock, etc. would be
bugged and probably anything depending on them like calendar DAs and such.
I also know some tools that wedged clocks into BASIC that used the TOD
instead of the jiffy clock, simply because the TOD is easier to drive and
ostensibly free of issues introduced by the inaccuracy of the Timer A IRQ.
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