System commands Setting the time and date SETDATE year month day hour minute second SETDATE is used to inform the system of the current time and date. When the time and date is correctly entered with this command it is echoed in the standard format. All six numeric arguments must be given. The format is: year 0 - 99 month 1 - 12 day 1 - 31 hour 0 - 23 minute 0 - 59 second 0 - 59 Remember to include the leading ‘ . ’ when specifying a decimal number. Example: SETDATE .92 4 1 .12 .30 0 is half past twelve on April fools day.
Disk users can buy a $50 package of plug in real time battery backed SmartWatch, and routines for setting and forgetting it, and showing the time in a corner of the display. Users of 1616/OS V4.2e may note that on a certain date of the year, a special message will appear on reset; this indicates Andrew was programming eproms on his birthday. Incidently, I haven’t a clue where in the eproms he hid the text of the message, but look for his name with high bit set. Displaying the current time/date DATE This command causes 1616/OS to print out the current system time and date.
If the time and date have not been set up then the output will contain many zeroes and the month field will appear as question marks. Executing machine code GO a1 The GO command causes 1616/OS to perform an MC68000 ‘JSR’ instruction to the program at address (presumably the start address of a machine language program), and sets up an argument array. Page 84 User Tutorial Manual 1616/OS Commands