29 Jul
2004
29 Jul
'04
12:30 p.m.
On the other hand, if the definition is a device that
allows the
computer to keep time while it is powered on -- which is all that you
can deduce from the 650 example you quoted -- then certainly it goes
as far back as the CDC 6600 (1964) and probably a lot further. Then
again, that's after the IBM 650.
It would not suprise me if some of the unit record equipment had RTCs.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org