> Heracles wrote:
> >
> > Richard PIper wrote:
> >
> > > Greg Lehey wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Saturday, 1 January 2000 at 7:37:33 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> > > > > Looks like the Tax Office and Prime TV are playing it careful.
> > > > >
> > > > > Emails to both have been reported as undelivered for 4 hours (8-)
> > > > >
> > > > > Or maybe they just don't want to give the crackers a target (8-)
> > > >
> > > > A surprising number of companies who should know better seem to have
> > > > closed down altogether.
> > > >
> > > > Has anybody seen any evidence of new "virus"es?
> > >
> > > This self inflicted denial of service seems to be the only
> > > Y2K problem I have seen. Did anyone turn the power and water off
> > > in case they also failed :-)
> > >
> > > Richard Piper
> >
> > No!
> > Even my ancient Cyrix 686 166+ happily clicked over to 1/1/2000. The only
> > problem I have heard of is a company in the US whose system crashed when
> > they tested it a couple of days before the new year. Maybe everyone took
> > sufficient measures ahead of time.
> >
> Hmm, seems some people def'n of ancient is a bit sus {:-).
> I have 1 clone 486sx20 and three Acer 486Dx33 (max 540Mb HD systems)
> that all happily rolled over.
>
> Rather disappointed really - golden opportunity to get SWMBO to agree
> to buying a new system and nothing happens. sheesh!.
>
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