From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>
To: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
Cc: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: [COFF] Re: DECmate-II and WPS-8
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 11:45:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240227114519.687E821E8C@orac.inputplus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABH=_VS8n+xdZAhsjqRyVtcayCab8DrdRE2XypPfUvdnKgyLXg@mail.gmail.com>
Hi again Paul,
> He says that the software in question is a version of WPS-8 for the
> PDP-8. It should be possible to fix the date/time problem by dumping
> the DECmate's ROM and disassembling the code
I think WPS arrives on floppy. How sure are you the ROM's firmware
provides the date routines used by WPS rather than it just dishing up
something more crude with WPS doing the work of turning it into a date?
--
Cheers, Ralph.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-27 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-26 17:35 [COFF] " Paul Winalski
2024-02-26 19:13 ` [COFF] " Ralph Corderoy
2024-02-26 20:41 ` segaloco via COFF
2024-02-27 11:45 ` Ralph Corderoy [this message]
2024-02-28 17:00 ` Paul Winalski
2024-02-28 17:40 ` Clem Cole
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