EEk, I opened the unit up and looked, I forgot that I upgraded the unit to
68000 processors back in 1986. and this is when the Y2K worked. and yes it
used the century command too.


On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Martin Green wrote:

> Timothy D. Gray wrote:
>      :-) My Cromemco Z-2H minicomputer made in 1984 stores 4 bytes for
>      year in the date. (runs Cromix) some companies had their heads out of
>      their butts quite a few years ago. (Except that DBASE on it doesnt!)
>
> Since when? I was developing dBase II code on CP/M machines in the early
> 80's, and the internal date format was 8 bytes (the ASCII representation of
> YYYYMMDD). The default display was only 2 characters for the year, but this
> could be changed with the SET CENTURY ON command. (I don't believe I still
> remember that one).
>
>
> CIAO - Martin.
>