Stephen Russell wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Nicholas Geti <[email protected]> wrote: >> Those were goof balls who read too many newspapers without critical thought. >> I tell my friends to stop reading them and watching the news on TV. They >> will be much happier. The whole game of news firms is to sell news or what >> passes for news. Even the weathermen have to put on a show to get attention. >> That why they invented wind-chill to get people exercised about the >> temperature. >> >> Even if nothing was done about the Y2K problem and computers failed, so >> what? They mostly involved payroll and accounting systems which would be a >> massive snafu but most things would have survived albeit in a horrible state >> but doable. I suspect that mechanical control systems would not have been >> affected since they don't rely on dates (or at least shouldn't) to function >> correctly.
> Or trains getting routed to the proper tracks on this date and time. > Had that not worked on 01/01/2000 it would have been horrendous. A > good thing that all those programmers had the foresight to make sure > it didn't happen. Hi Stephen, In fairness, the guys around here (and presumably elsewhere) used Y2K as a huge promotion. They scare-tacticed millions of hardware upgrades and software patches. After New Year's Day they had nothing to do. When the day finally dawned I found that even the couple 8088s that I hadn't gotten to of the hundred or so in my care at that time still worked. Of course, they weren't doing anything date sensitive anyway so . . . -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://elect-pete-theisen.com/ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
