"Jeffrey A. Crum" wrote:
> Hmmmm. Don't ya think that the hype about Y2K brought to light what people
> and companies had to do to make the fixes so there wouldn't be any problems?
> I am in the computer field and know for a fact that if we hadn't made the
> changes, our systems would NOT have worked. We are working with 10-20 year
> old code and they didn't even imagine that the programs would still be in
> use come 2000.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Etien T. VanDenBroecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 12:20 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium
> >
> >
> > Yes that is true, but it has been said that somewhere along the
> > lines we all
> > lost a year, so is it the year 2000 or the year 2001?? who
> > knows, all that I
> > know is that the media hype about the Y2K bug, looks like it turn
> > out to be a
> > big money making scam.......
> >
> > Anybody else agree? Example: three days ago a friend of mine
> > heard on the radio
> > that some fool went and purchased and re-wired his whole house, to on run
> > generators for the Y2K blitz!!
> >
> > HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!
> > Etien
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Daniel wrote:
> > > There is no argument the new millenium does not start until 2001. A
> > > millennia is 1000 years, there was no year "0", so 1 AD through
> > 1000 AD was
> > > the first millennia, 1001 AD through 2000 the second (see a pattern
> > > forming?) and the third millennia starts 2001. Just some food for
> > > thought...
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Ernest N. Wilcox Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 07:25
> > > Subject: Re: [newbie] New Millenium
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Warren Doney wrote:
> > > > | 00.32 01/01/00 NZDT
> > > > | Happy new Millenium all...
> > > > |
> > > > | --
> > > > | Full plate & packing steel! - Minsk
> > > >
> > > > I've heard all the arguments about the new millenium not
> > starting until
> > > > 1/1/2001, but I think we should all compromise, and make the
> > entire year
> > > of
> > > > 2000 a celebration of our miraculous survival for two
> > millemia. This way,
> > > by
> > > > the end of the year, no one will care when the third millemium starts.
> > > >
> > > > The finest the new millenium has to offer to all,
> > > >
> > > > Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > > >
> >
I work int the computer/internet technical support too, we have a computer in
the back that runs MS-DOS 6.2 and windows 3.11 at the stroke of midnight last
night, we rebooted the computer and test the applications, no problems what so
ever.... also the company that I work for takes call from all over the country
(canada) thousands of those users are still running old windows 3.1
machines.... and most of them are dumer that dirt! Absouly no called about
there computer crashing! We also have a Cisco Router that the Company could
not grantee that would pass that Y2K test, after 12:00am last night we were
still surfing the net, with no problems......
BTW, that windows 3.11 machine aslo have a BIOS dating well before 1996..... I
don't what to believe, but I'm starting to have this feeling that we have all
gotten the Y2K flew
