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Posted by: bengi3 on 2018-07-23 11:26:35
I have just discovered, well not really, let’s say realized that the clock for our vintage Macs is about to reach its end:
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Posted by: sigtau on 2018-07-23 11:39:30
Two questions:
- Classic or Classic II? I couldn't tell from the video.
- What version of System is that? I want to say 7.0.1 but I may be wrong. The question then would be if later Macs suffer from similar issues.
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Posted by: nglevin on 2018-07-23 11:57:19
This has been brought up before elsewhere.
Intentional behavior in the System 7 Date & Time control panel for compatibility with the System 6 "General" control panel.
System 7 itself can handle dates past 2019 just fine. Or at least, as well as any 32 bit computer of the 80s and 90s can.
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Posted by: Dog Cow on 2018-07-23 12:51:38
What version of System is that? That's System 6 in the video.
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Posted by: ArmorAlley on 2018-07-23 12:56:23
Well, to be fair to Apple, in the mid-eighties, the turn of the Millennium seemed like an eternity away.
In 1983, I remember George Lucas saying that the next Star Wars movie wouldn't be out until 1997 and thinking how far away that was. The year 2000 (1) was even further away.
I think that the idea that people would be using Macs made in the 1980s after 2019 was just bizarre. These were days of great advances in processor speed, RAM, GUIs for computing in general. Machines doubled in speed, power and potential every couple of years. Would you buy a machine now that couldn't rendered dates after 2100 correctly?
Weekday-month-day-combinations repeat themselves every 28 years, if I am not mistaken. Century years not divisable by 400 mess this up a bit though. I'll be setting my year back to 1992 in my System 6 installations when the year 2020 rolls around unless I find an INIT that allows 2020 (and there surely is an INIT for that).
(1) The turn of the Millennium was either at the beginning or the end of the year 2000, depending on how difficult or contrary you are. For me, it was the end of that year. That being said, I didn't complain when the city I was living in celebrated the beginning of that year.
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Posted by: bengi3 on 2018-07-23 13:01:02
It’s a Macintosh Classic running
System 6.0.7.
Indeed I too found it weird to celebrate the new millenium on new years eve in 1999.
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Posted by: BadGoldEagle on 2018-07-23 22:46:25
And where one could find this control panel?
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Posted by: CC_333 on 2018-07-24 23:27:51
The General control panel? Any version of System 6 or 7, of course!! :lol: !!
As for whatever other CP(s) is (are) being discussed here, not a clue...
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Posted by: BadGoldEagle on 2018-07-25 00:06:07
I was talking about the one that uses the SetDateTime() Macintosh Toolbox call... I should check the macgui.
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Posted by: SE30_Neal on 2018-07-25 12:11:13
Is there not a Y2K patch for system 7?
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Posted by: Dog Cow on 2018-07-25 12:48:44
Is there not a Y2K patch for system 7? What? Macs were never affected by the Y2K bug.
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Posted by: SE30_Neal on 2018-07-25 12:59:43
Were they not, I didn’t know that!!!
I was PC from 1997-2007 but my love of my macintosh days at uni on various II’s and LC’s or my very own colour classic made me go back to mac in 2007 and now nostalgia has me an se/30, LcII, performa 6200 and a PowerBook 1400 for playing on so was a bit worried seeing the Y2K comment
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Posted by: ArmorAlley on 2018-07-25 13:09:06
Old Macs have to wait until 2038 for their Y2K moment. I wonder how many we can keep active until then?
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Posted by: SE30_Neal on 2018-07-25 13:13:56
Yes another 20 years is quite an ask for electronics as those capacitors have killed off so many already. I need to start buying up spares now to keep mine going lol
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Posted by: MOS8_030 on 2018-07-25 17:18:50
Old Macs have to wait until 2038 for their Y2K moment. I wonder how many we can keep active until then? I wonder if I'll be active then... 😉
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Posted by: SE30_Neal on 2018-07-25 22:01:31
Yes another 20 years is quite an ask for electronics as those capacitors have killed off so many already. I need to start buying up spares now to keep mine going lol
i’ll be 63
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Posted by: MacintoshMan1999 on 2018-11-08 07:41:55
I think it’s cool seeing a computer from the 80’s say a floppy disk was formatted in the year 2018.
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Posted by: SE30_Neal on 2018-11-08 07:43:22
Yes i do like it lol
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Posted by: NJRoadfan on 2018-11-08 12:38:49
Heh, Apple must have known the Lisa was doomed to fail. That machine's clock can't even be set past 1995.
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