CMOS ram/RTC past and present

[WhitehawkEQ]

CMOS ram chips.

This is the 1st CMOS ram/Real Time Clock chip.


This CMOS ram/RTC chip has built in battery and crystal.


This is a DIP through hole 8 pin CMOS ram/RTC chip


SMT version


I don't know if the last 2 are used on PC MB's as some time in the past the CMOS ram and RTC was moved to the chipset but I like to think that some manufacturers might be using them.

 

[trents]

May we ask why you want to know this information?

 

[EarthDog]

May we ask why you want to know this information?

For grins, like this one?

BIOS Past and Present

Just for grins, ever wonder what the BIOS chips looked like in the past compared to today? Well here you go. IBM PC XT BIOS AT clone BIOS ATX clone BIOS Last 2 pics are more modern chips DIP through hole SOIC surface mount

www.overclockers.com

 

[WhitehawkEQ]

For grins, like this one?

BIOS Past and Present

Just for grins, ever wonder what the BIOS chips looked like in the past compared to today? Well here you go. IBM PC XT BIOS AT clone BIOS ATX clone BIOS Last 2 pics are more modern chips DIP through hole SOIC surface mount

www.overclockers.com

Yes, I've been in to computers from the late 70's and have seen the progression of computer tech and just thought I would show how the BIOS and the CMOS/RTC have changed over the years.

 

[WhitehawkEQ]

Here is a bit more, back in the late 90's with the AMD K5/6 and Pentium MB's I found where the RTC/CMOS ram is located, it's in the SIS 5595 North Bridge/South Bridge chip (see pic)
Integrated Real Time Clock(RTC) with 256B CMOS SRAM in the SIS 5595 chip.

 

[Woomack]

I have bad memories of anything SIS based

 

[WhitehawkEQ]

I don't recall any issues with chipsets , anyway regardless of the manufacture, the RTC/CMOS ram was moved in to the chipset in the late 90's like 97 or 98 .

 

[Niku-Sama]

wow whata fancy board!
simm's and dimm's! AGP! AT and ATX PSU connectors! DIP switches for the CPU multiplier! COPIOUS AMOUNTS OF DUST!

anyway i had a catastrophic failure of one of those Dallas RTCs. Had one on an an expansion card for an Apple IIe, not sure what the card was but the battery in it ruptured some how while it was in storage and it ate away the traces down to the edge connector and ate a bit of the traces on the main board. it was in storage for a long time because i got it right before i moved out and then i forgot about it.

it was pretty sad, that cards probably worth a ton of money now in the collector market. it was really weird though, it wasnt like a transwarp card it was almost like a SBC

 

[WhitehawkEQ]

That pic is not mine, I pulled it off the internet, here is 1 of my old MB's, it's a 486 MB, I still have this 1.

 

[Niku-Sama]

oh interesting, did that board combine the two types of simms to run at once or was it either or?

also VLB, i never had any thing that used it, kinda seemed like a wasted effort

i'll have to snap a few pics of the old stuff i still have when i am diggin around the next few days looking for things to sell/trade at portland retro gaming expo

 

[WhitehawkEQ]

1st pic has a VLB Video card and VLB IO card, bottom pic is old SB card and modem card.