User's Manual

5. The next item to appear on your screen is the date
prompt, which appears every time you boot the
system:
Current date is mm/dd/yy
Enter new date:
At this point, you can either enter the correct date
or leave it unchanged by pressing
Enter. For now,
press
Enter to leave the date unchanged.
6. After accepting the date, MS-DOS displays the
time prompt:
Current time is hh:
mm: ss
Enter new time:
The time you see is the amount of time that has
lapsed since you turned on the computer. You can
enter the correct time or bypass the prompt by
pressing Enter. For now, press Enter to bypass
the prompt.
This brings you to the MS-DOS command prompt, A),
which is your starting point for putting MS-DOS to
work. The command prompt identifies the current
operating drive. On your Apex system, the top drive is
drive A and the bottom drive is drive B.
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