What Y2K glitch? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

1 Jan 2000

Well, thatsurprises me!  I've got NT3.51, NT4,Win98, and Win 95 in several
boxes some dating back a few years, and not a one had the wrong date or any
other apparent ill efects to show for the rollover.

My Netware server was off by 11 months, but that was due to a typo last
August.  That was the last time I rebooted more than one of my boxes.

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Pechter &lt;bpechter(a)monmouth.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Saturday, January 01, 2000 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: What Y2K glitch?

On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Bruce Lane wrote:
...
  Oh, and the MicroVAXen and Sun boxes here, the oldest
of which was
 designed and built in 1990, rolled right over to 2000 without a single
 protest.

 Lord above, what a non-event... too bad that people chose to focus their
 energies towards a bunch of hype instead of something worthwhile, like,
 say, a manned mission to Mars. 
Yup... I went nuts patching the blasted SunOS 4.1.x boxes (because
management required "Certification" on all hardware and software.
The problems were stuff like troff macro packages that didn't get date/time
headers right.  Real critical stuff, eh.

Well, I wish I  could've stayed with the old stuff.  The Suns worked.  The
biggest problem I had was the time  I spent  patching Windows boxes.

It took 5 times the overtime patching the Win95/98/NT stuff than any of
the Sun stuff.   The Suns were easy.  Apply patch to one Sun of each
architecture under SunOS 4.1.4, make tar patch.  Untar over machine to
install new kernel and all the patches.

The PC's were much worse.

Bill
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