{"id":450,"date":"2010-10-27T22:20:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T06:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=450"},"modified":"2010-10-27T22:20:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T06:20:18","slug":"for-lisa-the-world-ended-in-1995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"For Lisa, the World Ended in 1995"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you try to set the clock in Lisa OS 3.1 to 2010, you&#8217;re out of luck:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/docs\/lisa_clock\/lisa_clock1.png\"><\/p>\n<p>You can only enter years from 1981 to 1995. That&#8217;s a span of 15 years &#8211; why? And what happens if the clock runs past the end of 1995?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it wraps around to 1 Jan 1980.<\/p>\n<p>But why does it not allow entering 1980 then? That&#8217;s why:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/docs\/lisa_clock\/lisa_clock2.png\"><\/p>\n<p>Whenever the clock is set to 1980, it thinks the clock is not set up properly. So it <i>is<\/i> a 4 bit counter. Too bad, a 5 bit counter could have made it into 2011, and we all know that&#8217;s way more than ever needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you try to set the clock in Lisa OS 3.1 to 2010, you&#8217;re out of luck: You can only enter years from 1981 to 1995. That&#8217;s a span of 15 years &#8211; why? And what happens if the clock runs past the end of 1995? Well, it wraps around to 1 Jan 1980. But &#8230; <a title=\"For Lisa, the World Ended in 1995\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=450\" aria-label=\"Read more about For Lisa, the World Ended in 1995\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,17,22,33,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-archeology","category-hacks","category-operating-systems","category-trivia","category-whines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}