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!
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I just remembered the first computer I used at the Chem
department at the college here. We had a "card reader" and I
collected student data in the lab and had the computer calculate the
results. It was great.
One time I counted a student election in a couple hours. It
usually took them all night to hand count the ballots. I had the
ballots pre-punched in a way that allowed me to sort them into
rightside up, upside down, backwards and backwards and upside down.
Then I had to separate them into the seven schools and then finally
we counted them. It worked great.
This was a great computer. It was a Hewlett Packard 9800 and
it had the magnificent capacity of 4 K!!! You heard right, 4K!!
---Chas---
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