Re: [time-nuts] 60Hz mains clocking in computers

2010-04-20 Thread Uno Staver
Since many of us are not so old as I am, and aren't familiar with the PDP-11 family, I should have mentioned that this happened in the middle 80's. Uno Staver wrote: We bought a bunch of PDP-11/23s as part of a communications network system. After successful acceptance tests in Boston, MA

Re: [time-nuts] 60Hz mains clocking in computers

2010-04-19 Thread Uno Staver
We bought a bunch of PDP-11/23s as part of a communications network system. After successful acceptance tests in Boston, MA, the systems were commissioned in Sweden with 50Hz AC. To make the RSX-11M O/S time-of-day clock run OK, the developers modified some piece of code. Uno Staver Bill

Re: [time-nuts] viewing the upcoming leapsecond with XDaliClock

2008-10-07 Thread Uno Staver
Hello! I am sorry that I cannot give you any help. Instead I have a question to you: How and where did you get to know about the leapsecond.dat file? I ask you this question because before the previous leap second, January 1, 2006, I had a set-up similar to yours. I did not use or know