COS-310 "BAD DATE"

Jay Jaeger cube1 at charter.net
Sun Oct 4 15:01:46 CDT 2015


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
> 
> 


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