Re: y2k reflections -- MIDRANGE-L

nina,

I've go a 5363 running just fine.  Some date sorted stuff looks a little
funny because of sort order but all the info is correct. (I've got 3
clients running 236's and we used the window technique for their
applications and I keep the 5363 for support ... hey, it's paid for!)

I did get a call from a client that had an old PC and suggested that
they back date their machine to 1972 but they told me that the date
command would not accept a date prior to 1980.  Since they don't use it
for anything but to record entries from a scale, we determined that any
date would work just fine.

This whole exercise provided me with a good excuse for my remaining CISC
based clients: 1) they went to V3R2 2) we finally killed off some really
old S/36EE jobs they've been married to and took them 100% native.

Under tight budget constraints, IMHO, the whole Y2K issue loosened up
some purse strings to upgrade some very old equipment.  I've still got
some places with 5250's that they used on their S/34 and now serve as
system consoles for their AS/400!  (they liked the flat top for their in
basket) Geez, these things are old enough to vote!  The display is so
fuzzy you can't tell a 3 from an 8.  (So they upgraded and bought a used
3180 <g>)

nina jones wrote:
> 
> 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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