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To: CatLady who wrote (95)	12/29/1999 8:32:00 PM
From: AJ Berger	Read Replies (3) of 286

I thought you might find this amusing I have a dedicated telephony application running on an old OS/2 v2.01 Server that I'm 'afraid' to upgrade, and would have cost a fortune to update. So finally I ran a live test for Y2K and it worked perfectly! It seems this old 386DX clone see's years by the last two digits, so it rolls over to year 00, not caring whether it's 1900 or 2000 and just keeps humming along even though it's hooked up to a Y2K ready network, linked to 4 digit dated databases! Obviously, I had to truncate the first 2 digits of the date in the custom software in order to turn 00 into 2000, but the good news is, this old hunk of junk will keep on going now for the next 100 years! And by then I'll be dead, and could care less. Now all I gotta do is dig up another 2 digit annual Bios 386DX Motherboard for a spare when this one goes. If I use a new one I'm screwed! Happy New Year Everybody!

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