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Remember the big Y2K scare?

Yup. I work for a gov’t department responsible for many important buildings. They bought lots of generators and army rations(!) just in case.
Once it was obvious that nothing was going to happen the generators were sold at auction for pennies on the dollar and the army rations were tossed once they expired.
 
I was a Chrysler tech in the 90's, transmission specialist, (go figure). I did 10 years in the Navy before that and got heavy electronics training. In 98 I got my first IT job. Y2K Coordinator for a newspaper in central Maine. Been in IT ever since. Thanks Y2K!
 
I was on call that whole stupid week........
 
Seems like nobody just put the bios of the motherboard of your computer just a minutes before Y2K, I did it, nothing happens, what a disappointment, I was expecting something like this...
 
Sahara said:
Yup. I work for a gov’t department responsible for many important buildings. They bought lots of generators and army rations(!) just in case.
Once it was obvious that nothing was going to happen the generators were sold at auction for pennies on the dollar and the army rations were tossed once they expired.
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Really? :realcrazy:
 
I was a flight dispatcher for UAL. We had extra dispatchers on shift and all the IT guys, waiting for the sky to fall. Nothing happened.
 
I was at a party and a the stroke of midnight, some smartass snuck down and threw the main breaker. It induced a small panic. It was sweet. I’ve bumped into the smartass 2-3 times since then, and we still get a good chuckle.
 
Dana said:
I was at a party and a the stroke of midnight, some smartass snuck down and threw the main breaker. It induced a small panic. It was sweet. I’ve bumped into the smartass 2-3 times since then, and we still get a good chuckle.
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:rofl::rofl:
 
Dana said:
I was at a party and a the stroke of midnight, some smartass snuck down and threw the main breaker. It induced a small panic. It was sweet. I’ve bumped into the smartass 2-3 times since then, and we still get a good chuckle.
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That is the same sort of stuff I do on a daily basis. Being annoying is my own mission in life.
 
Thank you. The truth is not a burden for me, it is a badge.
 
Anyone remember Phil Hendrie's Y2K compliant jumper cables cables which purported to download software from a Y2K ready car to a non Y2K ready car. Failing that, use a bottle of Starter 2000 which was a gas additive which could also download software into your car. Classic.
 
I was heavy into PC's back then; we'd been cobbling together machines out of traded parts and bits
since the x86 days, so it was kinda like cars for me as well.
When all this Y2K crap fired up, I was one of those wiseasses that started taking machines and "fast
forwarding" their BIOS just to see what would happen when that magic date popped up on 'em later.
Answer? Not a damn thing.
Some of them reset to goose eggs on the date; others just maxed out and stayed there, remained perfectly
functional other than dating all created files the same from then on.
It was fun to watch the hysteria, though. "Doomsday" parties were a blast, anyways. :)
 
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