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On Wednesday, December 3, 1997 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-6, The Bakers wrote:
> This has been a great discussion so far!  Brings back lots of memories [no pun
> intended :]
> 
> Dan Yertzell wrote:
> 
> > The first line of the COBOL printouts
> > is:
> >
> > START OF CHECKOUT USING ABAVPA ON 74128 AT 0800 HOURS
> 
> Here the next question:
> 
> Did the H-200 have a built-in clock/calendar hardware (I don't *think* it did, at
> least the one I used) ?  Then where did the date & time come from on the header
> shown above from the COBOL compile ?
> 
> Did you have to input the current date and time somehow, perhaps on the console
> call card ?
> 
> Inquiring minds want to know.....
> M. Baker

Hi all,

Not sure if I believe the posting dates I'm seeing... did Google Groups exist in 1997?

>From what I've been reading on the H200/2000 series, there was a "Time of Day" clock (peripheral model 213-4) that would supply the time. Not sure how date was supplied - perhaps it was part of the Operator's procedure to enter it each day. I seem to recall something like that being done by the Operator of the H2040 I had access to. I did not see any reference to an overflow interrupt/indicator for the time-of-day clock.

I've been working on a virtual H2000-series machine (http://honeywell2000.durgadas.com/) and am trying to get more information about peripherals - and also any software that might be out there. Even information about how software was operated could be useful.

Is anyone out there?

Thanks,
Doug