Re: GS Hard Drive Defrag Program

[Roy Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" wrote:

> Wayne Stewart replied:
>
> >Steve Quarrella wrote:
> >
> >>  JB> I know ProSel is now public domain
> >>
> >> Did it survive Y2K?
> >
> >It was updated for Y2K. Glen Bredon did that just before he died.
> >The previous versions were not Y2K compliant though
>
> Yes, but not without controversy...  ;-(
>
> Apple had "standardized" a 2-digit "windowed" year representation,
> in which years from 40..99 meant 1940..1999 and years from
> 00..39 meant 2000..2039.  All the Y2K patches for the A2 that
> I know of tried to follow that standard.

Is there any way to utilize 40...77 as 2040...2077? After all at that
point the Apple II will be 100 years old.
How many Apple IIs were using data from 1940 in a Visicalc spreadsheet?

Roy