Distinguishing PowerBooks

[CC_333]

So in about 22 1/2 years, all old Macs left in existence will no longer be able to register the date properly?

Hmm.

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[techknight]

Not if they are using signed 32-bit integers. 

 

[Garrett]

Well, weren't the 68k Macs not Y2K compliant anyways? So wouldn't it just reset to 1958 or something like that?

But it isn't like the world is going to explode or something in 2038, like previously thought in 2000?

 

[Elfen]

2000's Ford Mustangs and a few other cars used PowerPC CPUs for their fuel/ignition and emissions modules. I doubt the clock has anything that affect it but who knows.

 

[Garrett]

But it isn't like the world is going to explode or something in 2038, like previously thought in 2000, right?

I've got extreme thanatophobia, so I'm kind of lucky that I was just an infant during the Y2K chaos, and I wasn't alive through the Cold War.

 

[galgot]

Ahhh... Cold war was cool ...

 

[techknight]

I always thought the y2k thing was bupkis. the only thing that was ever affected were really old systems that only use two digit years within the date time calculation, because "19" would have been fixed programming.

the Mac has and always did use four digit years within the timestamp the problem becomes 2038

 

[Macdrone]

Just take out the pram battery and set the year to a year with matching dates and days of the week.

 

[Elfen]

Here in the USA and other First World nations (Japan, most of Free Europe at the time before the fall of the Berlin Wall), are up to date with programming and systems. Its the Second World nations (like the USSR, China, India, etc) who lag behind the technology and rely on hand-me-down systems that has the most of the problems. Nothing like seeing a VAX or a PDP11 from the 1960s being use as a missile launcher. Much of the time the systems were down for maintenance and parts replacements/repairs.

Funny - the USSR had their own Microcomputer, forgot its name (and I had one!), which was a PDP-11 inside something the size of a Commodore Vic20 case. It used cartridges and saved things to cassette. Though it was a very viable and powerful system for its size and time, it did not sell well. Their Apple II Clone did better in sales, and(!!) that is on top of the licensing and government registrations/regulations fees they had! (You needed a license and register a typewriter and tape recorders in the USSR at the time! The reason is because they can be used a propaganda making machines!)

 

[galgot]

Like zee Doomsday machine mein prazident ?

Btw, sorry Garrett, really getting OT here