I recall  - in the MPE/VE and earlier era - a date close to the one you
mention, but different.

That date is November 1, 1972, which I believe was the default date if you
did not specify one at boot time.

If I remember correctly, in those days you were required to supply a date
at system bootup (there was no non-volitile system clock as today), and if
the system operator instead hit the return key, the system was left with
the "default" date of November 1, 1972.

Needless to say, that did cause problems, so there were several different
flavours of contributed library programs, such as clkprog which let you
change the system date without requiring a reboot.


At 06:21 PM 2003-10-29, Michael Anderson wrote:
>Oct. 29, 1971 (a.k.a.: 19711029) Does this date mean anything to any of
>the M.P.E. old-timers?
>
>I recall the old M.P.E 16 bit machine would sometimes have this date as
>default somewhere. Not sure if it was an ASK, COGNOS, M.P.E. default.
>Back in 1983 I recall asking a HP CE this question. She (about 60 yrs
>old at that time) told me that was the date that M.P.E. was first
>successfully booted up in the LAB. So this has been a piece of
>unverified data in my mind ever since. Lately I've reading some
>M.P.E./HP3000 history (Robelle has lots of it on there site at
>http://www.robelle.com/library/smugbook/classic.html ), but nothing
>about this piece of trivia.
>
>No big deal, just collecting trivia.
>
>
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