On 16 Jul 2009 09:48:19 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >> much snipped >> >Another fine example of "know-nothings" trying to "inform" the general >public. Remember all the flap about Y2K causing power and water systems >to shut down? Your car no longer working "because it's computer controlled"?
The Y2K office which coordinated all of the efforts for an oil company I worked at got a report that its 2 fairly new supertankers had Y2K vunerabilities (obviously they got fixed prior to Y2K). My small town's volunteer fire department got a fix for one of their fire engines for a maintenance computer chip that would not allow the engine to start if past maintenance interval. Since a fair number of members were also mechanics at the local car dealership and related gas station and body repair shop, they knew how to bypass to bypass the problem but it wasn't the sort of thing you would want to deal with on the way to the fire. I don't believe that I heard about any known problems with cars. > >The proliferation of the PC has resulted in another proliferation: that >of self-proclaimed "experts" that know next to nothing, but have loud >voices. > >Rick > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
