Hi Pete,
Would an internet system clock resetting program such as Dimension 4
take care of this particular problem?
BTW I'm so tuned into call signs that this is the first time that I
noticed that we share the same last name!
73 de Jim Smith VE7FO
Pete Smith wrote:
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> Another thing to pay attention to when running TR is a DOS window --
> make sure the system clock is keeping good time. I have discovered,
> for example, that with my new Athlon machine under 98SE, switching a
> mechanical KVM switch to move keyboard, mouse and monitor to another
> computer, and then moving back, will sometimes corrupt the timekeeping
> of the OS. This manifests as a loss of time varying from a few
> seconds an hour to hundreds of seconds an hour. Moreover, the loss of
> time continues even after keyboard, mouse and monitor are back on the
> affected computer, until you reboot, at which point things are dead
> accurate again. Curiously, this does not happen with the second,
> slower computer -- it stays right on time.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Sometimes a tower is just a tower
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