Re: new Apple announcement: Apple IIgs is obsolete (again)

[Steve <stingray@webzone.net>]

Ya know 2040 isn't so bad. My PPC only seems to go up to 2019, and then thinks
it's 1920. According to this, my GS has 20 more years before reaching so called
'obsolesence'. Is this just because I've given up on trying to keep up with the
OS update of the month and am still running OS 8.6, or is OS 9 similarly
affected?

Steve

Supertimer wrote:

> "Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@es.co.nz> wrote:
>
> >I came across an interesting press release today. It's from a company which
> >sells used computers and parts. The release includes a list from Apple of
> >computers which are now classed by them as vintage or obsolete. The Apple
> >IIgs was declared obsolete by Apple on 10 January 2000. I expect everyone
> >here will immediately stop using their GS's ;-)
> >
> >http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000114/ma_pre_own_1.html
>
> Apple Computers, please give me a break!  What is the logic
> of January 10, 2000?  If being obsolete is how they treat a
> computer, they "obsoleted" the IIGS a long time ago.  If one
> is to have a logical date based on something that's not
> arbitrary, it should be January 1, 2040.  That's the date the
> IIGS will suffer the equivalent of the Y2K bug and think it is
> 1940 (try setting the IIGS clock forward to verify this).