Re: Apple II GS y2k crash?

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joesk@ix.netcom.com (Joe) wrote:

>A teacher friend owns an Apple II GS approx. 9 years old. He asked me
>if his computer would crash in the year 2000. He was told by someone
>that it would. I'm not Apple literate - I'm a Tandem mainframe pgm'r
>and somewhat IBM PC literate. I'm assuming that if true, it might be a
>BIOS problem but I really have no answer for him. Can anyone shed any
>light on this question for me and my friend? Thanks.

Hi, the IIGS will not suffer the equivalent of the y2k bug until
the year 2049 (I think).  You can test this by incrementing the
IIGS clock past 2000.  It works fine, until mid-century.  ;-)