5 Aug
1999
5 Aug
'99
4:32 a.m.
I have a (yea, nice, broad, vague) question...
Are the IBM/XT, IBM/AT and PS/2 computers hardware Y2K compliant? I'm not
really into the old Clone machines, and don't really know... (and
personally I couldn't care -- but we had a customer ask about them and I
could really use an answer...)
Anyway, there are many folks on this list more intelligent than me, and
figured this is the quickest way I could get an intelligent answer to my
foolish question. ;-) If no-one else is interested in this discussion, I'd
be happy to take it to email only.
Thanks for any help y'all can provide,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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5 Aug
5 Aug
4:58 a.m.
Are the IBM/XT, IBM/AT and PS/2 computers hardware Y2K
compliant? I'm not
really into the old Clone machines, and don't really know... (and
personally I couldn't care -- but we had a customer ask about them and I
could really use an answer...)
Generally no but that does not mean unusable. Some will not have much
trouble as the XT machines don't have a TOD clock just a tick the OS
accumulates. That means the OS must be y2k...
The later AT and PS/2 machines do have a TOD clock and that can have one
of three bugs. Clock rolls over to 1980 and connot be set to 2000, the
clock rolls over and can be set to 2000 manually and the last is if
feb2000 is leap year. The only one that is severe is the cannot be set to
2000 bug. the others are merely annoying. There are plugin cards climing
to fix TOD errors (JDR 49.95).
Even if the hardware is fine then there are the questions for the
software. The bootom line is if the machine is doing work that is not
date centric no problem, should date be used it may not be a real
issue depending on how it's used. The later is an app that simple does
data logging and prints the current date an time.
Allison
5:49 a.m.
best bet is to set the machine to a few minutes before midnight of the rollover
date, then let it flop and see what you get, and then work with the operating
system and software as well. I had a patch/replacement for the file manager in
Win 3.1x for Y2K but otherwise I've not seen much. The only real problem I've
seen is in machines that onl look for a 2 digit year when setting the calendar.
All of my PS/2's work Y2K OK.
allisonp(a)world.std.com wrote:
Are the
IBM/XT, IBM/AT and PS/2 computers hardware Y2K compliant? I'm not
really into the old Clone machines, and don't really know... (and
personally I couldn't care -- but we had a customer ask about them and I
could really use an answer...)
Generally no but that does not mean unusable. Some will not have much
trouble as the XT machines don't have a TOD clock just a tick the OS
accumulates. That means the OS must be y2k...
The later AT and PS/2 machines do have a TOD clock and that can have one
of three bugs. Clock rolls over to 1980 and connot be set to 2000, the
clock rolls over and can be set to 2000 manually and the last is if
feb2000 is leap year. The only one that is severe is the cannot be set to
2000 bug. the others are merely annoying. There are plugin cards climing
to fix TOD errors (JDR 49.95).
Even if the hardware is fine then there are the questions for the
software. The bootom line is if the machine is doing work that is not
date centric no problem, should date be used it may not be a real
issue depending on how it's used. The later is an app that simple does
data logging and prints the current date an time.
Allison 
5:09 a.m.
Not running their original software they aren't. Running anything from M$
or IBM for that vintage machine (DOS 1-6.x, Win 1-3.x, OS 2) they are not
Y2K compliant due to the way the BIOS and OS handle clock roll overs.
--Chuck
At 12:32 PM 8/5/99 -0400, you wrote:
I have a (yea, nice, broad, vague) question...
Are the IBM/XT, IBM/AT and PS/2 computers hardware Y2K compliant? I'm not
really into the old Clone machines, and don't really know... (and
personally I couldn't care -- but we had a customer ask about them and I
could really use an answer...)
5:51 a.m.
>Are the IBM/XT, IBM/AT and PS/2 computers hardware
Y2K compliant? I'm not
Every brand of computer has a Y2K section on their website, best to refer
to that for specific information.
The only systems I am familiar with are several of the old 486 compaq's I
have include a SIIG extended bios card that is supposed to make them Y2K
compliant, and the IBM PS/2 model 95 have a bios patch for some units.
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