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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