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Off topic [was Re: is Mindstorm/RCX Y2K Compliant???)
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:37:42 GMT
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Jasper Janssen wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Dec 1998 19:53:26 GMT, lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Russell
> Nelson) wrote:
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> > Did you *tell* it which year it was??
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> > Then why do you think it cares??
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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.
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> > Sheesh, this Y2K panic is getting completely out of hand.
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> No it's not. We're not even close to getting everything away. How do
> you think we will fare if the world's stockmarkets can't function
> anymore because of a comp crash? or, which is a more likely scenario,
> the stockmarket will just crash completely because of companies going
> belly up when they're not prepared...
The most likely scenario is that so many people are in such a tizzy about
Y2K that there will be runs on banks throughout the civilized world
before the end of the year, causing total economic collapse. Ignorance,
not computer bugs, are the worst problem.
> > Mark
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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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