Yeah, there was a lot of hype and panic among the uninitiated/unaware. I won't mention the place, but the company I was working for leading up to Y2K required us to test coax-to-parallel protocol convertors that were running our printers off 3174 controllers.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Joel C. Ewing Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2020 9:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: FW: Re: it was 20 years ago today .... Y2K concerns for a 3174 make no sense to anyone who has ever customized one. There is no place while configuring a 3174 where you tell it local date-time and no hardware support to sync it with any external time source. So if it does have any kind of internal time awareness, there is zero reason to expect it to be synced with anything related to actual date-time and no reason it would choose to fail at a real world 1999/2000 year boundary it can't possibly know is happening. Joel C Ewing On 1/2/20 8:16 PM, Bill Dodge wrote: > We had users who were dependent on a 3174's connectivity that wanted us to > verify that it was Y2K compatibe. Totally in panic mode so several of us > assembled around the 3174s and shouted "Happy New Year". They never blinked. > > > > --- > Bill Dodge > > > > > > > On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 00:07:18 +0000, "Schuffenhauer, Mark" > <mschu...@tcfbank.com> wrote: > > I remember all the hype, it really freaked people out. I know people who quit > work, liquidated everything and went off grid. Many non-technical people were > very concerned it was the end. Minor non-y2k issues during the first few days > were blown out of proportion. Probably because of the scare tactics and > uncertainty the contracting companies used to get y2k work. > > One wonders how much companies paid for y2k work that wasn't needed. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Dodge > Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2020 5:55 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: FW: Re: it was 20 years ago today .... > > External Email > > I was consulting at Arlington County, Virginia County Government. My whole > family was at a friend's house as was our tradition but I had to report to > the IT Department by 11:30 PM even though I had been running a virtual > machine whose date had been set to cross the threshold at least 10 times. We > were gone by 12:15. > > > > --- > Bill Dodge > > > > > > > On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 15:19:52 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: > > My oldest was just hitting 5 and couldn't reach the breaker box. But I was at > work anyway. I'm pretty sure everybody showed up, including the IT dept head. > There was basically nothing to do. Maybe about 15 minutes after midnight I > was looking at a console with a couple of managers behind me and I said "Uh > oh", and wow... they were all over me looking for any kind of problem, > probably just to have something to report. I think it was a date formatted > wrong in a WTO or similar - nothing more. That might have been the extent of > the Y2K problems I remember seeing. > > On 1/2/2020 2:52 PM, Phil Smith III wrote: >> Hmm. I sent the post below, doesn't appear to have ever showed up, so >> retrying! >> >> >> >> From: Phil Smith III >> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2019 9:27 PM >> To: ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu >> Subject: Re: it was 20 years ago today .... >> >> >> >>> Has it been 20 years since Y2K?? sometimes it seems like last year, other >>> times seems like another lifetime ..... >> >> >> How many of us had smartass kids hanging out in the basement who, at >> 12:00:01, threw the main breaker? I know I did! >> >> >> >> Like many of you, I was on call that night, took the 2AM-10AM shift (at >> Sterling Software). Around 5AM when it was clear nothing was happening, we >> got sent home. I did get a nice sweatshirt out of it. >> >> ... -- Joel C. Ewing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from disclosure and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, distribution, copying, or any action taken or action omitted in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
