You can see the datasheet for this chip here.

You can see a clock project using this chip by clicking here.

This particular one is stamped Archer (Radio Shack's house brand), RS1755 with a date code of 7441 (1974). This is Radio Shack part number 276-1755. Apparently the MK6207N is a pin-compatible equivalent.

If you have any of these chips you'd like to part with, please send me an e-mail!

CMOS clock IC drives multi-digit gas-discharge display. Simple circuit does not include alarm, flashing colon, and AM/PM features. Seven segment-driver circuits and four digit-driver circuits are required, although only one of each is shown. Additional drivers are needed if seconds display is desired. Required supply voltages can be obtained from transformer-type supply driving diode bridge; regulation is not needed.

-M. S. Robbins, Electronic Clocks and Watches, Howard W.Sams, 1975, pp. 68-71.

Clock circuit using LED displays, powered via AC or DC.

When AC power fails, MCD-2 optoisolator senses voltage drop and makes Schmitt trigger force strobe input of clock chip to ground, blanking display and reducing current drain from 200 mA on AC to 12 mA on 9 volt standby battery. Clock will run for days on 1000 mAh battery. Two LED pairs that form colons between time digits are operated from digit strobe lines and remain lit when display is blanked, but draw only 1 mA.

-S. Green, Digital Clock Keeps Counting Even When AC Power Fails, EDN Magazine, Dec, 20, 1974, p 49-51.

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Brightness control circuit for MM5314 chip.

Developed for use with single-chip digital clocks in which several displays are multiplexed. Provides automatic brightness control by using variable duty cycle and switching it on and off in synchronism with display of time. Uses 555 timer in monostable mode, triggered by multiplex oscillator to determine off time of display. When ambient light is bright, resistance of ORP12 photocell is low and display is on most of time. Set 470K pot to give low light output without mistriggering under dark conditions. Timer can also drive decimal point directly and give matched brightness.

-M. G. Martin, Automatic Display Brightness Control, Wireless World, April 1976, p 61.

I have a whole bunch of these (somewhere in storage).

Clock circuit powered via 220 volt, 50 Hz AC.

Uses MM5316 alarm clock IC, originally designed to drive LCD or fluorescent displays, but modified here for LED display. Diodes and batteries provide power if AC fails, with blanking of display to extend battery life. Accuracy is poor on batteries but batteries make resetting of time and alarm easier after AC interruption. Alarm uses 555 multivibrator to produce frequency-shift warble on output tone. Time is set by fast and slow buttons, and alarm is set with same buttons while depressing alarm-display button. Transistor type is not critical.

-M. F. Smith, Digital Alarm Clock, Wireless World, Nov. 1976, p 62.