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i just put my battery back
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Ahhh the way back machine...i remember 1969 when.....oppz wasn't born yet...far from it too.
Bless
Bless
out of uranium and can't get back to the future? (or plutoinium, or whatever radioactive element they used to power that damn car...
sam10685 said:
have u seen Back to the Future?
oops. wrong thing. i meant to respond to the person that responded to my question of "what the hell's a jiggawatt?"
sam10685 said:
You've got a 12" PowerBook. They don't have a backup battery, just a small capacitor to keep your settings whilst you change the main battery. This means you have to be reasonably quick or it resets to the system defaults. The date thing is down to the Mac's clock, which works by counting the number of seconds after a preset baseline date. The default is to reset back to the zero state, a date in 1969, meaning you can relive the 70s complete with glitter and platform heels. Nothing is broken, you just weren't quick enough in getting the battery back in.
As a side note regarding the clock, it will run out of available digits eventually and all Mac software will have to be rewritten because of the Y32K bug. Now that's forward planning
dynamicv said:all Mac software will have to be rewritten because of the Y32K bug. Now that's forward planning
Y32K? that's a little ways off... maybe, just maybe Apple will buy microsoft by then.