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Re: is Mindstorm/RCX Y2K Compliant???
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 31 Dec 1998 19:53:26 GMT
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Russell Nelson <nelson@&nospam&crynwr.com>
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David Forrest writes:
> Given all the attention regarding Year 2000 compliance,
> see:
> http://www.tmn.com/~frautsch/y2k2.html
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> I was wondering if there will be any problem using the RCX and
> the computer software from Lego when we roll over to the
> year 2000.
Did you *tell* it which year it was??
Then why do you think it cares??
Sheesh, this Y2K panic is getting completely out of hand.
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Message has 1 Reply:  | | Re: is Mindstorm/RCX Y2K Compliant???
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| (...) It's a microcontroller. Therefore it has an internal clock. Therefore it can suffer from Y2K, if it hasn't been removed. (...) No it's not. We're not even close to getting everything away. How do you think we will fare if the world's (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Given all the attention regarding Year 2000 compliance, see: (URL) was wondering if there will be any problem using the RCX and the computer software from Lego when we roll over to the year 2000. If anyone knows, please let me know. Thanks! (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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