just got the M48T59Y real time clock/NVRAM surface mount chips I ordered from China for the Sun workstation in november that got misdelivered in mid-december that I'd written off.
I guess I'll be able to try making my breakout board and hooking a battery and RTC crystal to one of them after all.
Two surface mount real time clock chips with machined header socket pin looking thingies on either end separate from the normal IC legs for connecting a quartz crystal and external battery to. Normally these are in what ST Microelectronics called a "Snap-HAT" package, but I'll be hooking them up externally as discrete parts.
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