test-drb January 1999

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by Watzman＠ibm.net

I'm sick of hearing that this proble occured because people were trying to save bytes. I was doing COBOL programming in the 70's, I probably wrote code that would have y2k problems, and saving bytes had nothing to do with it. The problem arises simply because people (programmers included) normally write dates in the format "mm/dd/yy", as in 12/31/99. Not just in computer programs, but in normal, day-to-day lives. It's that simple, and that is all that there is to it. Barry Watzman

25 years, 11 months

That does not compute

by H.Davies＠latrobe.edu.au

At 07:21 PM 31-12-98 -0800, Sam Ismail wrote: >Well, certainly the '@' symbol was entirely useless until internet e-mail. >And how many people actually use function keys any more in the age of the >GUI and mouse? Apart from those Digital DCL users who have been using it to invoke command procedures for about 25 years and TOPS-10 users who used it for I/O redirection for even longer.... Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479 1999 La Trobe University | "If God had wanted soccer played in the Melbourne Australia 3083 | air, the sky would be painted green"

25 years, 11 months

Looking for PolaPulse or equivalent

by mbg＠world.std.com

Thanks, I got the pointer for polaroid... I'm going to follow up on it. As for a vt100 clone -- 1 line of 16 characters? not much of a terminal... but I guess enough if there isn' t much data which has to go back and forth... Megan

25 years, 11 months

Blue LCD displays

by Watzman＠ibm.net

The blue color of Zenith and some other monochrome LCD displays is caused by the backlight. These displays use an electroluminescent panel behind the entire LCD screen, and it gives off a blue light. Most current LCD displays use flourescent tubes either behind or on the sides of the displays, with a variety of optical diffusers. Flourescent tubes, of course, give off white light. Barry Watzman

25 years, 11 months

Intel Prompt 48

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<I know next to nothing about it and had no time to play with it, but I <assume it's an 8048 SBC with hex keypad, 7-seg LEDs, PROM programmer, etc. <from around 1977. < <I don't suppose anybody has docs or specs for this, eh? Did I mention <RARE? Anything but rare. It was the development, pre-ICEand eprom version programmer for the 8048 and 8049 (also 874x) parts. It has asimple debug monitor and also download capability. Many are still in use as the 874x parts are still in manufacture and use for low end controllers. Allison

25 years, 11 months

[Fwd: fwd: Y2K Computer Glitches Hit Sweden Taxis, Gas Pumps]

by wpe101＠banet.net

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: fwd: Y2K Computer Glitches Hit Sweden Taxis, Gas Pumps Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 15:33:30 EST From: "Willis Emerson" <wemerson(a)natick-amed02.army.mil> Reply-To: <wemerson(a)natick-amed02.army.mil> To: <wpe101(a)banet.net> ---------- Original Text ---------- From: AMSSCSIM@IMD@natick, on 1/5/99 2:40 PM: To: *@* Cc: AMSSCSIM@IMD@natick ---------- Original Text ---------- From: AMSSCSIM@IMD@natick, on 1/5/99 2:27 PM: To: AMSSCSIM@IMD@natick Y2K computer glitches hit Sweden taxis, gas pumps. STOCKHOLM, Sweden - For a while, some taxi passengers got unexpectedly cheap rides and some motorists had trouble buying gas due to computer glitches that accompanied the new year in Sweden. Stockholm's largest taxi service recently changed the way it calculates fares. But when 1998 became 1999, some of its computers didn't adjust properly and passengers were charged normal rates, instead of the higher holiday and late-hour fares. "The problem has been patched, and now we'll get to the root of the problem," Taxi Stockholm managing director Anders Malmqvist said in a telephone interview Saturday. Customers of Statoil, Norway's state oil company that operates about 600 gas stations in Sweden, couldn't use their credit cards Friday because pumps were programmed to accept them only through December 1998. "There was nothing wrong in the data technology, but rather it was we who programmed badly," Statoil spokesman Henrik Siden told the regional newspaper Oestgoeta Correspondenten. The day before, police at Stockholm's Arlanda international airport were temporarily unable to issue provisional travel documents to four travelers who had misplaced their passports, the Swedish news agency TT reported. When they attempted to input the date, some computers would not accept "99" and transmitted in response: "end of run" or "end of file."

25 years, 11 months

R.I.P. Hayes

by roblwill＠usaor.net

Any addresses to get more info? -- -Jason Willgruber (roblwill(a)usaor.net) ICQ#: 1730318 <http://members.tripod.com/general_1> -----Original Message----- From: Max Eskin <kurtkilgor(a)bigfoot.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 2:28 PM Subject: R.I.P. Hayes >Just so everyone knows, > >Hayes is gone. They closed down for good yesterday. >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- - >----- >Max Eskin | kurtkilgor(a)bigfoot.com | AOL: kurtkilgor >

25 years, 11 months

Win95 in running very slowly shocker!

by gareth.knight2＠which.net

Russ Blakeman >As for the SX to DX thing, have you added a math coprocessor? I know when I >added a 487 to my wife's P70 portable that we chaged the 386DX-20 out with a >"Make It 486" processor it went from showing 486SX in MSD to a 486DX, probably >due to the presence of the FPU. No, the only change I've made is to add an IDE 2x CD-ROM drive and install a copy of Win95. -- Gareth Knight Amiga Interactive Guide | ICQ No. 24185856 http://welcome.to/aig | "Shine on your star"

25 years, 11 months

Y2K stuff

by mbg＠world.std.com

>This is exactly the stuff I refer to. Whay would an elevator care what >year it is? Some do days of the week but their clock is not date but >_day_ so that say on sunday you need a pass key to get in a building that >would be open during the week. That as far as they go, very >minimalistic. It may only care about date, but depending on how the application was written, it may calculate the day of week based on the *date*, or it could simply count days 1-7 (rinse) and repeat. If the latter, no problem... if the former, then the programming will drift over the years, only getting it right again 28 years later... Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry!zk3.dec.com | | Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg!world.std.com | | Compaq Computer Corporation | addresses need '@' in place of '!' | | 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | | Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | | (603) 884 1055 | required." - mbg | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

25 years, 11 months

Y2K stuff

by allisonp＠world.std.com

"rolls over" every 20 years, and the first such rollover will be during <August of this year. The problem is expected to cause problems in some <receivers, perhaps causing erroneous output (unlikely) or possibly "loss o <acquisition" when the receiver decides to listen to the wrong constellation The system does not lock if the geometry is poor or the required tests fail. It's designed to not give error filled results. I'd bet though it will ride through it with minimal problems as most aircraft GPS use multiple sats and the really big ones like on Commercial also have inertial systems to check against. None fly single system and the whiskey compas is still there to check the tube! Allison

25 years, 11 months

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