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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (6307)	7/6/1999 10:43:00 AM
From: tcd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

i said audio. audio doesn't mean video or GPS or whatever you want to throw in. all of the above components that I mentioned have real time clocks in them that go way beyond the year 2000. Most VCR's go to 2030. regardless of the way they interact with other video and sat components, one thing is clear, they will not malfunction. i don't know a lick about broadcaster's equipment but I am sure that most of their equipment would be compliant. they, certainly, would be out of business at the stroke of midnight if they had not replaced their equipment.

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (6307)	7/6/1999 6:24:00 PM
From: daffodil	Respond to of 9818

Hi, Cheryl. I haven't posted in ages but Y2K has me humming once again.... Thanks for the fantastic work you have done on this and other threads, keeping us posted on what's happening and what people say is happening, those, of course, being two different things <g> Unfortunately, I'm one of the folks who got us into this mess...as a programmer in the late '60's and '70's, we never ever thought that our code might survive our middle age. With regard to the "September 9, 1999" phenomenon, I'm familiar with the "9999" end-of-file code as used in mainframe applications....payroll and accounting type stuff where a "last file" code was needed on sequentially-accessed storage devices: magnetic tapes and such. Here's my question: what information/intelligence do you have about whether "9999" codes were used in embedded systems? I'm very familiar with CAD/CAM as it existed in the 70's and in my experience any such end-of-file codes would not be troublesome, but I'm clueless about whether there would be a "9999" function in truly embedded systems. BTW I'm even skeptical as to what kind of mainframe application would have used the "9999" in a date record (rather than a key record such as a Social Security Number or employee number in a payroll application, for instance), but I'm open to the possibility. As always, I'm grateful for the effort you bring to this and the other Y2K boards. Thanks for your incredible contributions!