From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 13:02:43 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Date madness In-Reply-To: <00e601d37436$671baf80$35530e80$@ronnatalie.com> References: <20171212180117.BFB5918C087@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <1513177676.2580511.1203714576.15A48921@webmail.messagingengine.com> <00e601d37436$671baf80$35530e80$@ronnatalie.com> Message-ID: <9ac6727e-17cc-3d8e-b175-c94d83d0c1d6@kilonet.net> On 12/13/2017 12:18 PM, Ron Natalie wrote: > The TOPS-10 software ran out in 1975 or so if I recall. Nope, I can boot a 7.03 monitor and it understands Y2K and higher. I had to edit SYSTAT.MAC to make it print the currect year after 2000, but everything else just worked. I believe a 6.03A monitor also behaves correctly. Although, I believe the year is coming soon when it will implode and wrap back around. I don't recall the specifics of that. ../simh/simhv28/pdp10 ks10.cfg.gold PDP-10 simulator V2.8-4 Listening on socket 6 Modem control activated sim> boot rp0 BOOT V3(47) BOOT> [Loading from DSKB:SYSTEM.EXE[1,4]] LIRICS Timesharing Gold 07-08-01 Why reload: PM Date: ** Time: ** Startup option: go ** .SYS Status of LIRICS Timesharing Gold at 12:59:09 on 13-Dec-2017 Uptime 3:17, 99% Null time = 99% Idle + 0% Lost, 0% Overhead 12 Jobs in use out of 128.  12 logged in, 10 detached. * *. Monitor LIRICS Timesharing Gold System uptime :04:08 Current date/time 13-Dec-2017 13:00:00 *<-- This time is spewed by the monitor directly which I did not have to change>* ** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: