care to expound on your y2k problems at work? im interested to hear about them…
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The sad things was, I don’t believe they were Y2K related, as much as Y2K “preparation” related, as I stated in the other post.
The first problem was a bad power supply that went out on a Unix processing terminal. Well, I assume it was going bad beforehand. This computer never gets shut off. I shut it off to avoid any of those nasty apocalyptic power surges that never happened. When I powered back on on Monday, the system would boot, but I couldn’t log on due to the bad power supply which served the rack of cards, display, etc…
The second problem was from a windows PC that serves as a gateway/image trasnslator from our Winchester-based camera acquisition computer to the Unix-based processing station. The support center uploaded a Y2K patch to the system that was built for Win 95, not realizing that this was an old Win 3.1 'puter! Idiots!
The third problem was back on the Unix station. Once the gateway(not Gateway) was fixed, and the patient images were successfully being transferred to the Unix(as noted by the translation software) I couldn’t find them in the Unix database. This was easily resolved by clearing the date range field and trying to reselect. This may have been the only “real” Y2K bug related issue.
The fourth problem was on a Win 95 PC(this one I use to post from work, and am typing on right now!) that I use for remote ordering of doses from a radiopharmacy. Random software glitch/error caused that piece of proprietary crap to crash and I had to telephone all my orders in. Since this is the only work-related program on the computer, it was, in effect, “down”.
The ironic thing is that this ancient, dual-winchester served camera terminal had no problems whatsoever!
“How’d you get your mind to tilt like your hat?”
-The Thrashing Doves
Dang, spoke too soon and didn’t knock on wood! The Double-Winchester computer’s optical drive went out yesterday! 100% failure in the first two weeks of 2000. This does not bode well 
“How’d you get your mind to tilt like your hat?”
-The Thrashing Doves