RE: Y2K Switchoff

Sounds like solid logic to me.
Glenn

At 12:19 PM 9/28/99 -0500, John Cirocco wrote:
>Colin,
>
> We are bringing our plants mission critical pieces Friday and bringing
>them up Sunday morning. We have been told that the local energy supplier
>expects no MAJOR problems but there is always the possibility of
>localized problems. Since my UPS has minutes vs. hours of uptime, we
>felt it best to shut the stuff down.
>
>Regards,
>John
>
>John W. Cirocco
>Director, Information Technology
>Pierce & Stevens Corp.
>710 Ohio Street
>Buffalo, NY 14203
>John_Cirocco@PierceStevens.com
>Phone 716-856-4910 Ext. 201
>Pager 1-800-670-7039
> or 6707039@pagemci.com
>
>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Colin Williams [mailto:MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 10:15 AM
>>> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
>>> Subject: Y2K Switchoff
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have heard of a company that is switching off their 400 on
>>> the Friday
>>> before Y2K and then switching it on again on the Saturday. For some
>>> reason they believe this will stop any Y2K problems with the
>>> machine.
>>>
>>> This seems very strange to me, as I would think most Y2K
>>> problems would
>>> relate to applications, and not AS/400 hardware or OS stuff.
>>>
>>> Anyone heard of any other companies doing a similar thing.
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Regards,

Glenn
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