> The Y2K office which coordinated all of the efforts for an oil company > I worked at got a report that its 2 fairly new supertankers had Y2K > vunerabilities (obviously they got fixed prior to Y2K). My small > town's volunteer fire department got a fix for one of their fire > engines for a maintenance computer chip that would not allow the > engine to start if past maintenance interval. Since a fair number of > members were also mechanics at the local car dealership and related > gas station and body repair shop, they knew how to bypass to bypass > the problem but it wasn't the sort of thing you would want to deal > with on the way to the fire. I don't believe that I heard about any > known problems with cars.
In one of the local offices where I work, staff were at their computers, monitoring their systems, on the night of Y2K. And right at the stroke Of midnight, some clever fellow turned off the lights. There was subdued panic until he turned them back on again. :) Regards, Allen Gainsford ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
