Re: y2k reflections

["Carl Galgano" <cgalgano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nina:
I usually don't pile on with "me toos", but you are so right.  Lots of hype,
some application problems, but for the most part no big deal.  I have some
older PCs at my office and they did fine.  I also had to use the old DATE
DOS command, but after than things are fine.  I feel sorry for John Rocker
of the Atlanta Braves.  Since the media doesn't have Y2K to report on ad
nauseaum, they are beating him to death.  Idiots and ignorant people say
stupid things, end of story.... time to get on with life.
CJG

Carl Galgano
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
540 Powder Springs Street
Suite C19
Marietta, GA  30064
770-422-2995
mailto: cgalgano@ediconsulting.com
http://www.ediconsulting.com
EDI, Communications and AS400 Technical Consulting

-----Original Message-----
From: nina jones <ddi@datadesigninc.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Monday, January 10, 2000 7:25 PM
Subject: y2k reflections


>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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