[time-nuts] Maintaining boatanchors

d.seiter at comcast.net d.seiter at comcast.net
Wed Oct 27 06:24:27 UTC 2010


I work with a guy who worked there for years as a CE. He still has contacts; it's a real long shot, but I'll give it a shot. 


-Dave 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Rabel" <jason at extremeoverclocking.com> 
To: time-nuts at febo.com 
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 12:06:10 PM 
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Maintaining boatanchors 

I wish Symmetricom would release source to the old TrueTime / Datum products... But I'm sure most of that source code has been lost 
/ thrown away. 

For instance, the older network time servers are much cooler to me than the new models. The old stuff was custom designed and 
specifically written / tweaked by hand. The newer time servers are just off-the-shelf single board computers, a GPS module, and then 
*maybe* a custom oscillator module.... Then they just run on a *nix OS with some small custom scripts to do the timing and automate 
setup... Just not the same... 

> HP had a program called NOMAS (Not Manufacturer Supported) where 
> they did release the source code to some of their calculator products 


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