From: Chris Townsend <townsend@smokin.fly.net>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 11:22:10 +0800
To: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Subject: Re: Time codes for PCs (fromn German Banking)
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On Fri, 26 Jan 1996, jim bell wrote:

> (BTW, if anybody knows how to easily connect it to the pc, or has the 
> appropriate software, please tell me  The task isn't difficult from a 
> hardware standpoint; it's just RS-232 serial ASCII timecode at about 9600
> bps which 
> either continuously retransmits or on request.  The problem is the software: 
>  How, exactly, do I INTERFACE such a serial input to the existing computer/RTC 
> combination? (Don't tell me to plug it into an unused serial jack!  I'm not 
> stupid. I'm not a  programmer, and I don't play one on TV! (I know 
> gates, flops, op amps, A/D, D/A, microprocessor hardware design, even some 
> Z-80 assy language, RF,  and I've programmed in Fortran, Basic, APL, Algol, 
> PL/1, Pascal, LISP, but not recently and I don't enjoy it!)

You'll probably want to look at the XNTP code at

ftp://louie.udel.edu/pub/ntp

There's plenty of good toys and code for time geeks, radio clock
info, etc.

-cpt
townsend@fly.net