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My first computer was a Tandy TL1000. It lived in our basement for many years as we upgraded every so many years.
When the rumors started flying of the impending doom and peril from Y2K, I had to fire it up and advance the date to 01-01-2000. Of course, it functioned normally, and I knew if technology that old wasn't going to be affected, neither would the power grid, airline functions, or the other hundreds of things that were (supposedly) going to freak out.

Timmy! posted:

My first computer was a Tandy TL1000. It lived in our basement for many years as we upgraded every so many years.
When the rumors started flying of the impending doom and peril from Y2K, I had to fire it up and advance the date to 01-01-2000. Of course, it functioned normally, and I knew if technology that old wasn't going to be affected, neither would the power grid, airline functions, or the other hundreds of things that were (supposedly) going to freak out.

Ah, if it were only that simple, grasshopper.  Was a Delivery Project Executive in IBM spearheading global Y2K "issue avoidance" efforts.  From a pure I/T support vantage, turning over every grain of sand would have been a fair scope definition.

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