Totally Agreed: I was involved in some of the pre-clean-up stuff also for
electrical grid control systems. We never found anything to dangerous but
most of it was controller software without critical real time date
consequences.


"Tater Gumfries" wrote in message
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Tater was doin systems administration at that time, at a University in
Colorado, and he knew a few things about it. Folks was workin right up
until the last day of 1999 makin sure things was in order. Most of the
stuff in the press was hysterical nonsense, but they was real problems
got took care of kept some bad things from happenin. People who knew
what could go wrong fixed things, and kept checkin everything to make
sure they got it all. That's why the ****storm didn't happen.

Same thing with epidemics. Folks who know what they're doin figure out
and implement preventive measures to minimize the damage. But they's
still ignorant folk claim when things don't go wrong, weren't nothin
to the danger in the first place.

Tater

On Jan 4, 11:51*am, "Josepi" wrote:
Totally Agreed: I was involved in some of the pre-clean-up stuff also for
electrical grid control systems. We never found anything to dangerous but
most of it was controller software without critical real time date
consequences.

I even heard stories that the software in read only memory in fire
alarm monitoring systems in buildings were doing two digit year
calculations. They had to be replaced before 12/31/1999. And they
were.

Aaron Hirshberg