Y2K concerns for a 3174 make no sense to anyone who has ever customized
one. There is no place while configuring a 3174 where you tell it
local date-time and no hardware support to sync it with any external
time source. So if it does have any kind of internal time awareness,
there is zero reason to expect it to be synced with anything related to
actual date-time and no reason it would choose to fail at a real world
1999/2000 year boundary it can't possibly know is happening.
Joel C Ewing
On 1/2/20 8:16 PM, Bill Dodge wrote:
We had users who were dependent on a 3174's connectivity that wanted us to verify that it
was Y2K compatibe. Totally in panic mode so several of us assembled around the 3174s
and shouted "Happy New Year". They never blinked.
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Bill Dodge
On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 00:07:18 +0000, "Schuffenhauer, Mark" <mschu...@tcfbank.com>
wrote:
I remember all the hype, it really freaked people out. I know people who quit
work, liquidated everything and went off grid. Many non-technical people were
very concerned it was the end. Minor non-y2k issues during the first few days
were blown out of proportion. Probably because of the scare tactics and
uncertainty the contracting companies used to get y2k work.
One wonders how much companies paid for y2k work that wasn't needed.
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I was consulting at Arlington County, Virginia County Government. My whole
family was at a friend's house as was our tradition but I had to report to the
IT Department by 11:30 PM even though I had been running a virtual machine
whose date had been set to cross the threshold at least 10 times. We were gone
by 12:15.
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Bill Dodge
On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 15:19:52 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote:
My oldest was just hitting 5 and couldn't reach the breaker box. But I was at work
anyway. I'm pretty sure everybody showed up, including the IT dept head. There was
basically nothing to do. Maybe about 15 minutes after midnight I was looking at a console
with a couple of managers behind me and I said "Uh oh", and wow... they were
all over me looking for any kind of problem, probably just to have something to report. I
think it was a date formatted wrong in a WTO or similar - nothing more. That might have
been the extent of the Y2K problems I remember seeing.
On 1/2/2020 2:52 PM, Phil Smith III wrote:
Hmm. I sent the post below, doesn't appear to have ever showed up, so retrying!
From: Phil Smith III
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2019 9:27 PM
To: ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: it was 20 years ago today ....
Has it been 20 years since Y2K?? sometimes it seems like last year, other times
seems like another lifetime .....
How many of us had smartass kids hanging out in the basement who, at 12:00:01,
threw the main breaker? I know I did!
Like many of you, I was on call that night, took the 2AM-10AM shift (at
Sterling Software). Around 5AM when it was clear nothing was happening, we got
sent home. I did get a nice sweatshirt out of it.
...
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Joel C. Ewing
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