• Please review our updated Terms and Rules here

Turn it off . . .

There were a few machines - ones that were already almost obsolete at y2k - who's clock would change to the wrong date on that midnight.... but then you reset the time the next day and they would keep on working fine after that.

It was a real yawner, but the media had the general public whipped in to a major frenzy. They really thought stop lights and everything would stop working.

Not that there weren't real problems. The entire media panic was an insult to anyone who actually fixed y2k related code problems.
 
SomeGuy said:
There were a few machines - ones that were already almost obsolete at y2k - who's clock would change to the wrong date on that midnight.... but then you reset the time the next day and they would keep on working fine after that.

It was a real yawner, but the media had the general public whipped in to a major frenzy. They really thought stop lights and everything would stop working.

Not that there weren't real problems. The entire media panic was an insult to anyone who actually fixed y2k related code problems.
Click to expand...
Never had a problem with the Dallas clocks.
 
I heard there was an actual problem at a building in Australia.
The newly install hi-tech system was not Y2K compliant and it caused all the toilets to overflow simultaneously.
I suppose if you were sitting in a stall at the time, you would think the world was coming to an end....
...and what a way to go!
 
johnx993 said:
I heard there was an actual problem at a building in Australia.
The newly install hi-tech system was not Y2K compliant and it caused all the toilets to overflow simultaneously.
I suppose if you were sitting in a stall at the time, you would think the world was coming to an end....
...and what a way to go!
Click to expand...
Oh shit.... ;)
 
We could have had potential problems within the industry I work in if we hadn't done some testing and fixing before the event (hence it was a not very interesting event for the general public).

I left one of our offline test systems running over the Y2K boundary at least a year in advance of the actual event and (sure enough) it all fell apart (despite a letter from the supplier that is was Y2K complient). They rescinded their letter and fixed their software!

Dave
 
Last edited:
A relative of mine was an engineering safety analyst, and the company she was working for in the late 90’s made a mint sending people out to tour industrial facilities for potential Y2K exposure. Her favorite story from that was when she asked a site manager to open the control box for an industrial elevator to see if it had an embedded processor that might care about the time. They opened the door and the control box was full of vacuum tubes (so pretty obvious no there); she had a couple young interns with her that were thrilled, though, they’d never seen tubes still in action before.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top