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From: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
To: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>
Cc: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: [COFF] Re: DECmate-II and WPS-8
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 12:00:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABH=_VQDao_Z_hBKMfHxfJS9TPd9_G9XQcg-qEd_27zOjwBwyw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240227114519.687E821E8C@orac.inputplus.co.uk>

IOn 2/27/24, Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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?

I got the ROM disassembly you pointed me to and took a look at it.
Thanks, Ralph.

You're right--it's WPS-8 itself that has the date/time routines that
need patching.

So now I'm looking for a WPS-8 disassembly, and if possible the source
code, which I assume is in PDP-8 assembler.

Is there a forum that PDP-8 folks hang out in where I could ask for leads?

Thanks,

-Paul W.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-28 17:00 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
2024-02-28 17:00   ` Paul Winalski [this message]
2024-02-28 17:40     ` Clem Cole

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