[N8VEM-S100:7247] OT: Godbout Clk 5

[Jeff Albrecht]

I'll jump in the fire with Josh and brave an off topic post. Checkout what
must be one of the first Godbout (creator of excellent S-100 systems)
boards it's a clock based on the MM5314N
<http://www.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/pdf/117101/NSC/MM5314.html>chip. It's
in my RetroWagon collection here
<http://retrowagon.org/wiki/index.php/Godbout_Clk_5>. It works! See bottom
silk screen for identification. Date is 1975.

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[Crusty OMO]

Jeff,

Very nice. It's hard for young people today to understand, but an LED digital clock back then was like the iphone today... everyone wanted one, it was revolutionary.

Cheers,
Josh


Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 21:08:46 -0700
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I'll jump in the fire with Josh and brave an off topic post. Checkout what must be one of the first Godbout (creator of excellent S-100 systems) boards it's a clock based on the MM5314N chip. It's in my RetroWagon collection here. It works! See bottom silk screen for identification. Date is 1975.
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[Bob Bell]

Nice!

Sometime about this same time I built the Heathkit digital alarm clock, model GC-1092A.

Like your CLK 5, my clock still works, and wakes me up every morning to its obnoxious buzz alarm.



Bob Bell





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I'll jump in the fire with Josh and brave an off topic post. Checkout what must be one of the first Godbout (creator of excellent S-100 systems) boards it's a clock based on the MM5314N <http://www.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/pdf/117101/NSC/MM5314.html> chip. It's in my RetroWagon collection here <http://retrowagon.org/wiki/index.php/Godbout_Clk_5> . It works! See bottom silk screen for identification. Date is 1975.



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[norwestrzh via N8VEM-S100]

Heh ... Heh .... Hard for youngsters to understand, indeed. Way back in the early 1970's I built a digital clock in a custom plexiglass enclosure. It has hrs., mins., and secs. (hrs. and mins. in ~.7" 7-segment LED displays (largest available at the time) and secs. a little smaller (maybe .4"?)), and is based on the Mostek MK50250 chip. Point to point wiring. It has time, alarm, AM/PM indicator, etc. It's still running!

Funny part is back when I first got it running, a guy came to the house to give me an estimate on reupholstering a chair and sofa. When he saw the clock (sitting on top of the TV in the living room), he went nuts. At one point, he offered to swap the reupholstery job for the clock! I'm not sure if he was serious, but at that time I wouldn't have traded it for *anything*!

Roger









Nice!

Sometime about this same time I built the Heathkit digital alarm clock, model GC-1092A.

Like your CLK 5, my clock still works, and wakes me up every morning to its obnoxious buzz alarm.



Bob Bell





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I'll jump in the fire with Josh and brave an off topic post. Checkout what must be one of the first Godbout (creator of excellent S-100 systems) boards it's a clock based on the MM5314N chip. It's in my RetroWagon collection here. It works! See bottom silk screen for identification. Date is 1975.
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