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Hi Folks and Happy New Year/Decade/Century/Millennium:
This Forum certainly spent time discussing various aspects of Y2K and considering that the lights are still on, maybe some of our discussions were fruitful.
I am particularly interested in any "war stories" that you may have concerning things that went poof, and how they were fixed or worked around.
We all may learn from the various events and their fixes.
Yes, you can change the names to protect the lucky survivors.
As for me, I will contribute four that I saw in the new papers (any one with more details can jump right in) and one from home:
1) Three commercial nuclear power plant shut down shortly after mid-night, though the shut downs were not attributed to Y2K.
2) A Japanese nuclear plant lost its automatic radiation monitoring computer system, apparently due to Y2K problems.
3) The folks at NORAD had a real fretful time when, at midnight Moscow time, three missiles were launch from southern Russia. The Russian reps at NORAD did not expect this. Things were tense. The missiles were identified as SCUDs launched as a New Year's present to the Chechnya's by some local commanders.
4) A South Carolina City has a traffic light control system that works fine, is old, is not Y2K compliant at all, costs too much to make compliant, and cost more to replace. They set the date for the system to 1972 (the last
leap year that began on Saturday, like 2000) and all is well! If you folks remember, this was one of the suggested work around discussed on this Forum!
5) One of the three computers (PCs) at home had the clock chip that would stop at midnight and possibly not restart (according to testing done several weeks ago.) On Dec 30, I lied to the computer and set the date to Jan 3 and turned it off. Then, on Jan 2 I turned it on and set the date back to Jan 2. All seems well.
A nurse friend in the medical profession said that a bunch of Electrocardiogram machines failed in Britain. Any info anyone?
So jump in and share any war stories you have!
Cheers, Steve Cliff
This Forum certainly spent time discussing various aspects of Y2K and considering that the lights are still on, maybe some of our discussions were fruitful.
I am particularly interested in any "war stories" that you may have concerning things that went poof, and how they were fixed or worked around.
We all may learn from the various events and their fixes.
Yes, you can change the names to protect the lucky survivors.
As for me, I will contribute four that I saw in the new papers (any one with more details can jump right in) and one from home:
1) Three commercial nuclear power plant shut down shortly after mid-night, though the shut downs were not attributed to Y2K.
2) A Japanese nuclear plant lost its automatic radiation monitoring computer system, apparently due to Y2K problems.
3) The folks at NORAD had a real fretful time when, at midnight Moscow time, three missiles were launch from southern Russia. The Russian reps at NORAD did not expect this. Things were tense. The missiles were identified as SCUDs launched as a New Year's present to the Chechnya's by some local commanders.
4) A South Carolina City has a traffic light control system that works fine, is old, is not Y2K compliant at all, costs too much to make compliant, and cost more to replace. They set the date for the system to 1972 (the last
leap year that began on Saturday, like 2000) and all is well! If you folks remember, this was one of the suggested work around discussed on this Forum!
5) One of the three computers (PCs) at home had the clock chip that would stop at midnight and possibly not restart (according to testing done several weeks ago.) On Dec 30, I lied to the computer and set the date to Jan 3 and turned it off. Then, on Jan 2 I turned it on and set the date back to Jan 2. All seems well.
A nurse friend in the medical profession said that a bunch of Electrocardiogram machines failed in Britain. Any info anyone?
So jump in and share any war stories you have!
Cheers, Steve Cliff