Klarinet Archive - Posting 000814.txt from 1999/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Dichotomitis (rant)
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 22:13:28 -0500

At 04:23 PM 11/20/1999 -0500, Mark C. wrote:
>The Y2K thing isn't a hardware thing, folks. It's a software thing, and in
>most cases on older PCs it's going to be an annoyance more than anything -
>my 486 is going to be running just fine, I'm just not going to pay attention
>to the date (I don't anyway - the clock was running slow, so I just keep it
>back at 1995).
>
I utterly amazes me the way people overblow the Y2K thing. I have a 386SX
on my desk at work (my old one from home, actually) that I use for word
processing (and playing computer bridge while I eat lunch). I expect that
after January 1st, I will lose the automatic document date function, but,
other than that, I expect it to work just fine. What is it supposed to do?
Boot up on January 3rd, notice that it is now "1900," realize that
computers have not been invented yet and vanish into thin air?

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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