COS-310 "BAD DATE"

[Michael Thompson]

I am fiddling with diskettes on my PDP-8/e. I booted COS-310 V8 and it
asked for a date. I tried lots of date combinations, and none were accepted.

Is this because I don't have an LTC installed?

COS MONITOR  V 8.00
DATE?
.
ERROR IN COMMAND
.DA 10/04/74
BAD DATE

COS MONITOR  V 8.00
DATE?
.DA 1/25/72
BAD DATE


-- 
Michael Thompson

Re: COS-310 "BAD DATE"

[Jay Jaeger]

I doubt that any PDP-8 family OS checks for licensing of any sort.

Back in those days, DEC used the format DD-MMM-YY for dates, so try
something like:

04-OCT-78

JRJ

On 10/4/2015 1:17 PM, Michael Thompson wrote:
> I am fiddling with diskettes on my PDP-8/e. I booted COS-310 V8 and it
> asked for a date. I tried lots of date combinations, and none were accepted.
> 
> Is this because I don't have an LTC installed?
> 
> COS MONITOR  V 8.00
> DATE?
> .
> ERROR IN COMMAND
> .DA 10/04/74
> BAD DATE
> 
> COS MONITOR  V 8.00
> DATE?
> .DA 1/25/72
> BAD DATE
> 
> 

Re: COS-310 "BAD DATE"

[Michael Thompson]

>
> Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 15:01:46 -0500
> From: Jay Jaeger <cu...@charter.net>
> Subject: Re: COS-310 "BAD DATE"
>
> I doubt that any PDP-8 family OS checks for licensing of any sort.
>
> Back in those days, DEC used the format DD-MMM-YY for dates, so try
> something like:
>
> 04-OCT-78
>
> JRJ
>

Thanks Jay, that worked!

It is different syntax from the COS 300/310 manual that I have.
Time to find a different COS manual.

-- 
Michael Thompson