Re: No Y2k Bug

[David McLoughlin <davemcl@AXE*THISiprolink.co.nz>]

David Bromage wrote:

> Naturally I had a battery powered radio and a torch ready at midnight. At
> worst, I was expecting that the power might go off for as long as it took
> the supplier (in my case ACTEW) to reboot their computers and run a
> diagnostic, or kick in manual control. Maybe half an hour or so without
> power.

I didn't even bother getting a torch or candle ready. I did not believe
the power would fail, nor the water nor the phone system. I have faith
in modern technology (not blind faith, but I do believer our utility
companies, banks, ISPs, etc when they say there is not a problem.

I thus sat on my computer connected to the Internet at midnight and
right on the dot my computer's date rolled over to January 1 2000, the
connection kept working, the lights stayed on, my mains-connected radio
kept broadcasting (as did the TV), and so on. There was no problem at
all, as I had believed.

I saved a fortune in batteries, canned food and the imported bottles of
shonky Australian tapwater which were being flogged off to gullible
Kiwis as mineral water from the Snowy Mountains at extortionate prices.

David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand