>From: tedd@... >X-Sender: sperling@... >Message-Id: <v04003a02630c1aa4f4d4@[10.1.254.117]> >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Date: Mon, 27 Aug 1956 21:53:48 -0400 >To: futurebasic@... >Subject: [FB] My upgrade [X-FB] > >She's so fast she left the clock behind behind! >-- >Ted Spencer; ted@... Ted: Yeah, when one installs a new cpu card, there is a reset button you push to get the computer to acknowledge the new card, but that button also resets the params. However, I don't know why it reset it to Aug 27, 1956 -- what happened to 1/1/1904? Which incidentally was the subject of a help-desk story about a woman who believed that her dead mother was channeling to her through her mac. The help-desk person finally found out that: a) the woman's Mac had a battery that went dead, thus always resetting the date to 1/1/1904; b) And, the woman's dead mother's birthday was, you guessed it, 1/1/1904. What I found very interesting is that my computer, while I was on the net, automatically checked that there was a time/date problem and went out on the net and updated my time/date. Unfortunately, it fixed it after, instead of before, I sent that email. tedd http://sperling.com/ _______________________________________________________ Thinking about buying Jewelry? Try our site: http://earthstones.com