29 Jul
2004
29 Jul
'04
3:44 a.m.
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> wrote:
VAX Architecture Reference Manual requires every VAX to have one,
and they all indeed do starting with the 11/780. Was the 780
introduced in 1978 or 1979? In any case it was designed in the late
1970s.
MS
If you mean a
clock that maintains time when power is off or gets the time
by radio then we are probably into the micro era.
Yes.
But I can't imagine there was not a real-time clock (i.e. as described
above) as at least an option for an earlier computer system.