Date   : Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:47:59 -0000
From   : "David Harper" <dl.harper@...>
Subject: Re: Web site: Mainly Master 512

Sprow  wrote:

>  ...
> You could also extend it to read the time as a string, and interpret the
> first two digits of the year and use BCD to get the last two digits (or 
> just
> interpret all 4 from the string). This would allow the value of *TIME to
> match that used in DOS without fiddling,

Yes, possible. I am not sure the result would be any better, but it might 
make more sense.

A curiosity I came across while doing this: You cannot enter dates into M512 
DOS-Plus earlier than 1980. However, the date stored in DOS-Plus counts from 
the beginning of 1978. If it could be entered, Day 1 would 1st January 1978, 
and the first valid date, 1/1/1980, is Day 731. Why these two wasted years? 
Does anyone have any idea?

David Harper