Re: Y2K Furor
Tim Dutton wrote:
>
> I was very disappointed to find that my PC which checked out as "Y2k OK"
> with a test program actually fails to boot properly since the century
> change. It gives me a "CMOS checksum error".
Hi Tim,
Sorry to hear that you have been "bitten by the bug" even if only in a
quite minor way. I do not know of any simple solution to your problem -
other than to get your BIOS chip replaced, which I imagine should do it.
Maybe buy a new PC!
> I wrote some of that code back in the early 70's, under instruction. I said
> to the boss "This date format that is in all our files won't work in 2000"
> and he said, "Don't worry, this system will have been replaced long before
> then and besides, it will be somebody else's problem."
Yes, me too! I was programming in the 60s, and our first two major
installations were written with exactly the same assumption! But when
you remember the storage capacities available to us then, it is hardly
surprising that we accepted the risk. When your storage medium can only
hold 2MB (our first one) or 7.5MB (our second one), every byte counted!
Tony
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