I have about 5 computers running here from Pentium and above all
seemed to roll the date over fine. I have installed on Y2K fixes
on any of them because I wanted to see first if there was a
problem before I fixed them.
Jeanette
----- Original Message -----
From: Jaguar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2000 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] New Millenium]
> Food for thought...
> I checked my Mom's elderly 486 66 with a Phoenix BIOS and
Win3.11 and
> discovered that it had defaulted to 1980, a simple reset of the
date and all
> is well...MS Word correctly inserts present date + 2000
> Jaguar
>
> Etien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "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
> >
>
>
>
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