[COFF] DECmate-II and WPS-8

[Paul Winalski]

A friend of mine has a DECmate-II word processor.  It is in perfect
working order except for one thing.  The field encoding the current
date/time has overflowed.  It is impossible to set a date/time in the
21st century.

He says that the software in question is a version of WPS-8 for the
PDP-8.  It should be possible to fix the date/time problem by dumping
the DECmate's ROM and disassembling the code.  It ought not be too
hard to locate the date/time encode/decode routine and come up with a
fix to the time epoch problem.

Is anyone out there familiar with the DECmate-II software?  Or, even
better, knows how to get its source code?

Advice greatly appreciated.

-Paul W.