y2k reflections

[nina jones <ddi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

well, we got through y2k, with our biggest problem being old autofax
machines, that rolled over to 1980.  after some serious hair pulling, we
found that these machines could be dated to 2000 by the dos date
command.

out of curiosity, i fired up my old p/c, (from 1990) and found the same
thing to be true.  

i never heard that you could do that.  just a bunch of media hype that
old p/c's wouldn't work.  was there much money was spent on updating
bios, etc, that a simple date command would fix? 

after the big rollover, we've found system 34's still running, etc.  and
carl's old as/400 on version 2 was still going.  he doesn't care that
officevision won't work, since the machine doesn't use that anyway!

as a profession, did we make too big a deal over some things?  for
example, when david asked about v3r6, the only advice he got was to
upgrade to version 4 or date the machine to 1972.  nothing was said that
it would mostly work, and if it was only for 2 months, so what!  

well, i'm running for cover now!

nj
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