Re: Pc-Transporter and date 2000

[gospodin@clubi.ie (Vincent Quinn)]

In article <397d4959.4604625@news.adelaide.on.net>,
goble@gtech (David. E. Goble) wrote:

>I recently run my Apple 2Gs Pc-Transporter and noticed that when it
>booted up dos (v3 with some v6 files) the year was 1989. It can be
>manually changed to 2000, but on reboot it goes back to 1989.
>
>Is there any way to have the year correct on bootup?

I suspect this is dependent on the PCT hardware BIOS, so I doubt there's a
permanent fix - if I'm wrong, though, someone please tell me!

As a work-around, edit your MS-DOS AUTOEXEC.BAT file so that the last line
reads DATE

Then you'll get a prompt to enter the correct date each time you boot it.

Vincent Quinn