Revisiting Norstar Startalk Y2K Non-Compliant

[JohnrC]

There was another thread on this entitled "Star Talk Mini won't recognize year 2000". It was pointed out that you could just use another year with similar days/dates.

This has always worked, except I can't do it for 2012. Similar years are 1984, 1956 and 1928. But entering the last 2 digits of those years gets you <INVALID DATE> err msg.

Are there limits to how far back you can go? Seems like 1989.

Can this thing be flashed to update?

TIA for any guidance.

Cheers.

 

[exsmogger]

The Mini was never Y2K compliant and there is no patch to fix it. I'd set the date to 1995 for now, and then on March 1 set it to 1990. There's no workaround other than finding calendar years between 1989-99 with a similar calendar.

Brian Cox
Oregon Phone

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[norstarboy125]

I think it's time to upgrade...

Jeremy J. Carter
Charm City Communications

http://www.charmcitycommunications.com

Norstar. BCM. CS1000 Programmer

 

[JohnrC]

Thanks, Jeremy. I was afraid of that.

Thanks for your time.

 

[JohnrC]

It's a small business, norstarboy125. The system with Compact DR5 was ridiculously expensive when purchased long ago. Maybe that's why I'm hanging on for so long

The monthly phone bills are very, very (unjustifiably) high but when I start to look for replacements with a few voicemail boxes, I end up back to where I am. Care to point me somewhere for alternatives here in the Toronto area?

Might not even need a 'system' anymore.

Regards.