Re: Year 2000 Crash

Dave Mahadevan wrote:

> The Senate Banking Committee is even worried that vertiginous computers
> might automatically erase the last 99 years' worth of bank records.
> Some Y2K consultants are advising consumers to make sure they dont enter
> the 1999 holday without obtaining hard-copy evidence of their assets.
> 
We don't even have to wait that long.  Three weeks ago, one of our
clients had a power outage (Thanks for the warning Puget Power) and
their system came back up with a couple of fried cards (Thanks Best
Fortress) and a system date of 11/22/28.

It took a couple of days before their system operator called me about
some wierd stuff going on and after putting her under the hot lights to
get the full story it dawned on me the system came back with 11/22/2028!
and a whole lot of stuff reached it's expiration date. Not to mention
that the next scheduled back up was to occur on 11/23/2028.

Is it just me or does Nov 22nd mean anything?
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