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Re: Y2K bug in action
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Wed, 5 Jan 2000 12:59:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Matthew Miller writes:
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> on our (soon to be decommissioned but still limping along) VMS failed,
<pouting>Hey, stop that decommissioning talk - that hurts.</pouting> :-)
-Steven
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 | | Re: Y2K bug in action
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| (...) Hey, look, you want it, you can have it. Comes with a buncha professors who they think that it is the center of the computing universe. Which it probably was, in 1970whenever-the-fir...e-machine. (Hardware's been upgraded several times since (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Y2K bug in action
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| Discovered and squashed a Y2K-related problem today. The weekly full backup on our (soon to be decommissioned but still limping along) VMS failed, complaining "Volume label too long." Turns out that the volume label for a tape must be six letters or (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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