On 10/6/2010 11:59 PM, The Daring Dufas wrote:
On 10/6/2010 1:03 PM, AZ Nomad wrote:
On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:41:02 -0500, The Daring
wrote:
On 10/5/2010 11:26 AM, dgk wrote:
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 14:18:52 -0400, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

Y2K didn't do much except fuel the nega-doomers. The folks who
ridicule anyone who prepares for trouble. Hurricanes are still a
concern. And winter time storms. Freezing rain is what pulls down
power wires in my area.

I'm in software and we busted our butt to make sure that nothing bad
happened. Lots of software changes, lots of tests with our customers,
and sure enough, Y2K comes and nothing goes wrong. But it sure would
have without all the work we put in.

I remember changing out the BIOS in a number of computers to make them
compatible with the new date.

During the y2k rollover, I didn't have any ten year old computers. All
of them
handled the year 2000 with no problem.

Did you finally get rid of those 80286 and 80386 systems you were
using while
the rest of us were using Pentium Is, IIs and III's? Even 486 systems
had no
problem with y2k.

In the last few years I have actually had to service some systems still
running DOS 6.22. It's a good thing I hang onto old computers so I have
parts to fix the ancient machines. The new machines won't run DOS or the
old peripherals, different interrupts and such. It's funny, the old IBM
PC's were built like tanks. Yesterday I had to decommission an old IBM
server at a department store that had a 1998 date code on the hard
drive. The server even had a beige housing. 8-)

TDD
I've never seen an x86 machine that won't boot into 6.22 happily. I use
a 6.22 utility disk (on 3.5 floppy) to scrub used machines before I
reload them. Never played with the multiple-core unobtainium
processors- mebbe that is what you are talking about. Chained under my
desk at work, I have a now-considered-old Dell c640 laptop (that has
fallen off the inventory records somehow), that I use to program radios.
The radio service software won't run under any flavor of windows. All
the hard drive has on it is 6.22 and the Motorola software. They kept
trying to dispose of it on me, and I kept explaining I needed it to keep
THEIR old walkie-talkies running. Finally they stopped asking about it,
and on the dump from the next wall-to-wall inventory, I noticed it
wasn't there any more. I'm not gonna ask questions. They can figure it
out after I retire.

And I've still got stacks of beige around here, including the machine
I'm typing this on, a 2ghz p4 frankenstein made up out of dumpster parts
and the cheapest tower case NewEgg had 5-6 years ago.
--
aem sends...