Klarinet Archive - Posting 000010.txt from 2000/01

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Y2K!!!
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 08:38:15 -0500

Nicholas Yuk Sing Yip wrote,
>It looks as if Y2K is fake.>

Glad to see the Internet and klarinet all working this morning! I'm
speculating the Y2K bug was a real problem, but exaggerated for fun and
profit. Remember my anxiety about my 1994 computer? It's a 486 running
MS-DOS 6.1, Windows 3.1 and WordPerfect 6.0a. I'd been assured by people who
sounded as though they knew what they were talking about that I could expect
trouble, which some of them offered to fix for sums of money I didn't care to
shell out.

I decided to tell the computer it was 1971, rolling over to 1972 (same leap
year and days of the week as 2000) but at the last minute, I changed my mind
and did nothing, after discovering that the DOS seemed to have a 4-digit date
function. This morning, DOS had rolled over to 2000. WordPerfect initially
thought it was 1980, but when I reset the Windows 3.1 date screen to 1/1/00,
despite the fact that it looks like a 2-digit date, it comes up correctly as
2000 in all the date functions I've found so far. Since I only use that
computer for word processing and CAD, apparently there's no problem. Same
deal with my husband's old laptop, also a 486 with basically the same stuff
as my PC only slower. We keep it just for travelling. Nice that it will
still work, because it's not worth spending another dime on it. As for my
husband's Pentium II, it rolled over to 2000 with no tweaking at all.

Kevin and I stayed home, shared steaks and sparkling cider, and watched the
festivities on TV. Happy New Year!

Lelia

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