My point was the laser 128 does not have any internal slots and a card made for the Apple II cannot be installed in the machine. There is the expansion port but that is already being used by the Lego card. Tony Sent from my iPhone
On May 24, 2017, at 2:04 PM, Dan Roganti <ragooman@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Tony Bogan <thebogans@mac.com> wrote: While Dan's point about still needing software to monitor a hardware clock and the inherent limitations of that would still hold true, there have been solutions for the iic and laser form factor machines.
Bill D. mentioned it earlier. A no slot clock (clock and battery on a chip)
I know in the past Henry Courbis sold one through his reactive micro site. I don't k ow if that's still the case but it's something to consider. His specifically worked on the iic (without memory expansion card installed) and on the laser 128.....since obviously the card options like the mountain or Timemaster cards cannot work with a laser 128.
Tony
About the Clock card, I really don't think it matters which form you install, either a card or no-slot version. You would still need to access the Clock/Calendar with your basic code twice each time to measure the elapsed time. And since Applesoft Basic is an Interpeter, the Timing errors can aggregate all together after running after a few min So sometimes you might get 0.8sec or other times you might get 1.2sec depending how many lines of Basic code or which branch was taken in the code. Dan