Hayes Chronograph

[Bill Lange]

Did anyone have a Hayes Chronograph back in the day (or now)? How did it work? Could you have both the Hayes Chronograph and a Hayes Smartmodem both hooked up to the Atari via the 850 at the same time?

 

Bill

[Kyle22]

I had a friend who had one. He used it on his TeleVideo multi-user system to keep the time for his BBS. Basically, it uses standard Hayes modem type commands such as ATRT to read the time.

 

I would put your modem on the 850's R1: port, and the chrono on R2:

 

Attached is the manual which contains some example BASIC code. It might make an interesting project to re-create this using an Arduino and a RTC chip.

HayesChronograph.pdf

[Bill Lange]

This is great. Thanks for posting the manual.

 

Bill

[Savetz]

I have one. It's fun.

[Bill Lange]

I have one. It's fun.

 

Kevin,

 

Does it still work and keep accurate time? Does it automatically update for daylight savings or do you have to adjust it manual?

 

Bill

[+Ripdubski]

I would doubt it it adjusts to todays daylight savings dates since they've changed gradually. I always wanted one just for the clock. I didn't know it also served as an RTC for the computer.

[Savetz]

 

Kevin,

 

Does it still work and keep accurate time? Does it automatically update for daylight savings or do you have to adjust it manual?

 

Bill

 

It keeps accurate time, it doesn't compensate for DST.

 

In today's world (or at least my world) of few computers with serial ports, it's harder to set than it should be, so I don't usually keep it running.

 

Kevin

[Bill Lange]

I guess it is better that it doesn't auto update for DST rather than auto updating on the wrong day.

 

I'd love to add one of these to my "Hayes' Stack" and my Atari beige desk phone.

 

Bill

 

[tschak909]

To be more accurate:

 

I had one of these as well, stacked very nicely against my Hayes Smartmodem and Smartmodem 1200 and Hayes Printer Buffer.

 

These were intended to be queried by the host computer when needed, and it used the standard Hayes command conventions (everything begins with ATtention), and had similar commands to the modems, but for different functions, e.g.

 

ATDD - Display Date

ATDT - Display Time

 

etc.

 

You could use some commands to get time and date in various different formats (printable, binary encoded, etc.), and thus write code on the computer side to e.g. set the system time. A driver could easily be made for SpartaDOS X for example.

 

Hayes intended for anyone using the Chronograph, to take care of Daylight Savings Time adjustments themselves.

 

-Thom

[Bee]

I'm trying to revive mine.  Time will tell.

 

Thank you

 

[santosp]

 

http://biosrhythm.com/?p=1546

[Bill Lange]

 

[Bill Lange]

After a couple of years, tonight I finally got around to replacing a burned out fuse and got my working again. My has a little board inside by Paul Rickards that lets the Hayes Chronograph update the time via my wireless network and the internet, rather than having to hook up a computer to it.

 

[Geister]

That Atari 400 mouse pad is awesome!  Where did you find that?

[Bill Lange]

I got it as a bonus for supporting the Kickstarter for this book I believe.

[doctor_x]

would LOVE one of these working or not. I also saw there was a third device for the "stack" ... Saved the article, will upload it later tonight when I'm on my ipad.

[Bill Lange]

In addition to the various smartmodems and the chronograph, Hayes also has a Interbridge and a Transet. Not sure how many of these two items sold, but they are hard to find today.

[Bee]

I have 2 Transets, I never setup.  They were already obsolete when I got them.  I'll look up the Interbridge.

 

Thank you