Re: IIgs date problem - Part 2

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peter <pweber1@purdue.edu> wrote:

>is the fact that i can't boot off of the downloaded system disks (not the
>appleworks ones) also due to y2k bugs? it doesn't say anything about the
>date, it just says it can't load ProDOS.

No.  The IIGS does not have the equivalent of the Y2K bug
on Y2K.  Rather, like older Macs, the date that this will
happen is 2039.  Run the IIGS clock forward to verify that
2039 rolls into 1940 on the IIGS.  ;-)

You have nothing to worry about for 40 years.

The reason your disks don't work is that the Mac does not
reliably write ProDOS disks.  If you had the IIGS system
up and running, it would actually be better to have the IIGS
read and write Macintosh format 800k HFS disks.  The IIGS
system software handles HFS just fine.  In fact, if you had
Zip disks or hard disks of the SCSI type and an SCSI card
on your IIGS, you could actually share a hard drive or Zip
disk between the IIGS and Mac using _HFS_.  While the
Mac has trouble with ProDOS floppies, it can't handle
MASS STORAGE (hard/Zip disk) ProDOS format at all
while the IIGS can handle anything in HFS.  The only
limitation is that the normal IIGS floppies are not high
density so HFS diskettes must be the 800k type, not the
1.44MB type, if you intend to share it between the Mac
and the IIGS.