Bill Lange Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle22 Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 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 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted December 10, 2015 Author Share Posted December 10, 2015 This is great. Thanks for posting the manual. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 I have one. It's fun. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted December 14, 2015 Author Share Posted December 14, 2015 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ripdubski Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted December 14, 2015 Author Share Posted December 14, 2015 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bee Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 I'm trying to revive mine. Time will tell. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santosp Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 http://biosrhythm.com/?p=1546 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted January 31, 2020 Author Share Posted January 31, 2020 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted February 1, 2020 Author Share Posted February 1, 2020 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. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geister Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 That Atari 400 mouse pad is awesome! Where did you find that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted February 1, 2020 Author Share Posted February 1, 2020 I got it as a bonus for supporting the Kickstarter for this book I believe. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor_x Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Lange Posted February 5, 2020 Author Share Posted February 5, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bee Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 I have 2 Transets, I never setup. They were already obsolete when I got them. I'll look up the Interbridge. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeventura Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 On 1/31/2020 at 9:48 PM, Bill Lange said: 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. If you ever want to sell one, just yell! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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