...and if you accepted the default, as many people at the time did, it would be 1980-01-01 00:00:00. DOS and the PC actually had no Y2K problem, storing the number of years since 1980 in a single byte --- which will overflow after 2235. It is notable that there is no year 2038 problem either.
I'm not sure what the Alto's RTC capabilities are. Hopefully a bit better than the PC's?
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...and if you accepted the default, as many people at the time did, it would be 1980-01-01 00:00:00. DOS and the PC actually had no Y2K problem, storing the number of years since 1980 in a single byte --- which will overflow after 2235. It is notable that there is no year 2038 problem either.
I'm not sure what the Alto's RTC capabilities are. Hopefully a bit better than the PC's?