From: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
To: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: [COFF] DECmate-II and WPS-8
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 12:35:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABH=_VS8n+xdZAhsjqRyVtcayCab8DrdRE2XypPfUvdnKgyLXg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
A friend of mine has a DECmate-II word processor. It is in perfect
working order except for one thing. The field encoding the current
date/time has overflowed. It is impossible to set a date/time in the
21st century.
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. It ought not be too
hard to locate the date/time encode/decode routine and come up with a
fix to the time epoch problem.
Is anyone out there familiar with the DECmate-II software? Or, even
better, knows how to get its source code?
Advice greatly appreciated.
-Paul W.
next reply other threads:[~2024-02-26 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-26 17:35 Paul Winalski [this message]
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
2024-02-28 17:40 ` Clem Cole
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