[Coco] Y2K fixes (comment on hysteria)

[Frank Swygert]

You know, I'm not the smartest person in the world, but I always figured 
the only thing that would be wrong with almost any system is it just 
wouldn't report the date right. Now that might be a problem with a check 
writing program, as it would either print 19100 or 1899 on a check, and 
the bank might give someone a hard time cashing that, but it really 
doesn't affect games or graphic programs -- would just report the wrong 
date in the directory listing for files. I suppose a database might be 
in trouble if it searches files or facts by date, and that is where 
businesses were supposed to be in trouble (as well as with checks)?? 
Maybe an older alarm system with an embedded controller wouldn't work 
right? Even if the computer did stop working, I'd just reset the date to 
1800 and recognize myself that it's really 1900... like my daughter does 
with her system to keep a couple demo programs going after their 
expiration date (they store the installed date and count 30 days from 
that instead of having code to count days or times used, obviously).
-- 
Frank Swygert -- Gulfport, MS
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