Was your personal computer Y2K ready ?
Hardware? BIOS? Operating System? Software Programs?
PC&YOU has offered seminars targeted toward problems you might encounter with your personal computers and the Year 2000 - and later. 2000 is also a Leap Year. Below are some links for background reading. Many of these sites address issues beyond the control of the individual personal computer user. Some do address software specific issues, but that was only part of preparing your personal computer to roll over to Year 2000.Seminars about Y2K - lead by PC&YOU - addressed what you COULD do to prepare your personal computer's hardware and software.
We hope that you find the below links helpful for a broader understanding of an issue the world had never faced previously. And somehow got past that date. Other issues are still to come.
This is not a "virus issue" but rather many computers (hardware, firmware and software) use DATE fields that can handle only two digits for the YEAR. For example, 1998 reads as 98.On January 1, 2000, these machines will interpret 00 as 1900. They may just crash. Or, more likely, they will spew out inaccurate data, like sending a notice that your utility bill is 100 years overdue (possibly with late fees)? Or it might get closer to home: You might not get paid?
One thing is certain. There was a great deal of uncertainty as to what might happen since results might vary widely depending who prepared what for the Year 2000 roll over. And that uncertainty will continue after the roll over since not all implications will appear immediately. And more importantly, how what they did, or failed to do, may affect your life? If you depend on the use of your personal computer, do your part. And keep doing it.
General Information
- Eight myths about the millennium bug - fromNET.com
- Everything 2000
- Year 2000 Information Center
- 2-k Times
- Y2K News Magazine
- The IETF's "The Internet and the Millennium Problem" draft
- Newsgroup: comp.software.year-2000
Y2K and your PC - only part of the story
- Microsoft's Y2K center
- Sun Microsystem's Y2K center
- IBM's Y2K center
- Apple and the Year 2000
- Linux in the Year 2000
- Netscape's Y2K statement
- Intuit's Y2K statement
- Novell's Y2K center
Y2K for IS Managers
- Datamation's Y2K for IS managers
- IT 2000 national bulletin board
- Microsoft's Y2K guide for IT managers
- InfoWorld's Y2K testing issues
Y2K and the Government(s)
- U.S. government's Y2K report card
- The House Majority Leader's Y2K Web site
- U.S. government's list of Y2K information directories
- Canadian government's Y2K Web site
- Federal Aviation Administration's Y2K Web site
- FCC's list of Y2K links for major telecom companies
Y2K and the Economy
- SEC's Y2K advice to investors
- Y2K reports from S&P 500 corporations
- J.P. Morgan's Y2K report
- Software Productivity Research's Y2K economic impact report
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