Hey, didn’t somebody mention The Matrix? Maybe the machines just took over and…gasp! We’re in the Matrix!
“War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who’s left.”
I thought I was ready…
My PC was the newest, hottest Y2K-dominant millennium-buster…
My VCR conquered the new year without a hitch…
My TV hicced, then upped, then accepted meekly the new date…
My coffeemaker and my microwave accepted the new 2xxx reality without a whimper…
But my stupid answering machine pitched a bitch! The damn thing reset itself one day behind the rest of humanity! All it actually knows is the day of the week and the time of day, and that only by what I tell it. But all my Wednesday messages have been arbitrarily recorded as having been received on Tuesday!!!
I am considering suicide, or, as an alternative, running for president. Please advise.
I don’t know why fortune smiles on some and lets the rest go free…
T
I just booted System 6.0.8 in my vMac emulator (the existing computer being unwilling to run anything that old natively); the emulated Mac Plus running under the 1990 vintage operating system correctly reported it to be the 9th of January, 2000. (Had the time wrong by an hour due to daylight’s savings time, though).
So I tried it with System 1.1 (© Apple Computer 1984) and ran the Alarm Clock DA. It displays “0” rather than “00” for the year but otherwise has it right. (Oh, except for once again thinking Daylight’s Savings Time is in effect). MacWrite (the free 1984 version that came with the first Macs) correctly displays January 8, 2000 in the document header if you open the header and drag in the “display date” icon.
http://home.earthlink.net/~ahunter/MacWrite.JPG
Document saved to disk shows January 8, 2000 as the correct document creation date.
http://home.earthlink.net/~ahunter/System_1.JPG
Partly this is testimonial to a good emulator, of course (it’s grabbing the date and time settings from the real computer’s clock chip), but obviously the software knew how to interpret it, implying that the original physical clock chips in those old boxes used a Y2K compliant algorithm!
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