Keith, at 22:30 on Wed, Apr 26 1995, you wrote to all except brenton ...

KR> thanks for the ideas, everybody seems to have the same idea that
KR> reversing the polarity clears the device.

That's the popular "opinion".  Naturally, we have no way of proving this.

KR> i'm afraid that i cant buy it for a couple of reasons.

Did you mean "buy" or "try"?  I thought you already had it?

KR> firstly the data was, much to my surprise, still in memory, and secondly, 
KR> the thing already has two little push buttons to set the clock, and enable 
KR> the beep. it would seem much more logical (and cheaper bob) to set the 
KR> thing's micrcode to reset if both buttons are pressed together.

Agreed, albeit MUCH easier to accidentally reset the ROM.  Sounds like it
was built correctly and thoughtfully, with fuckwits in mind.  |-)

Regards, Bill
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