Date   : Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:54:02 -0000
From   : "David Harper" <dl.harper@...>
Subject: Re: Web site: Mainly Master 512

Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:

>> I'm having a problem with the date, though, as it likes to think that 
>> it's
>> 2130, although the time is correct.  If I set the date, it is OK but I 
>> seem
>> to have to do this every time I boot the machine.  Does anybody else
>
> Dead battery.

No, it isn't, I'm afraid. It is the millennium bug. If you set the date on 
the M512 as now (i.e. March 2006), then it will be set in the CMOS clock as 
March 1906, and when you reboot it will come up as July 2130.

David Harper