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Originally Posted by hobnail
I would have said that maybe it's interrupts from devices
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That's not raelly a good excuse. We have hardware real time clock chips, and and it should be trivial to sync your drifting system clock to that, but somehow that doesn't happen or the RTC is also broken.
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I could bend your ears with stories of reel to reel tape drives and disk drives the size of a washing machine and whatnot.
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I have a disk platter from one of those hanging on my wall. I think I destroyed all my 1/2" tapes but every now and then I find another one. Some times I'm sad I have no way to read them, but then, that's probably just as well considering the age of the data on them even if it is readable. I still have some 1/4" tapes I haven't gotten around to disposing of.
But now this is getting way off topic. I would hope the clock in the forma would be high enough quality to not need a sync more than once a month or so. I have never noticed the clock in any of my kobos being off, but then I sync fairly often.