Geesh... Make me feel so old.
I do remember, we could buy an expansion card with RTC.
jaclaz wrote:
I guess you are too young to remember the early (and good ol'<img src="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif" alt="Wink" title="Wink" /> ) days when you booted to an OS and you were prompted to input date and time (no hardware RTC):
http://www.os2museum.com/wp/?page_id=563
The original PC did not have one, and it was introduced in the XT as a (if I remember correctly rather costly) option and became "standard" on the AT:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC
http://www.philipstorr.id.au/pcbook/book4/hdxt.htm
jaclaz
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