[Info-vax] More Y2K memories

[Henry Crun]

On 25/03/2020 2:18, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 3/24/2020 3:17 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>
>> I have had the opportunity to play with some very old
>> systems I used to work with and stumbled upon something
>> both curious and interesting.
>>
>> For all you people who thought that no one was actually preparing
>> for the Y2K debacle here is a price out of a boot up banner.
>>
>> PRIMOS 23.4.Y2K.R1
>> ------------------
>> Copyright (c) Prime Computer, Inc. 1988
>>
>> A Y2K version of the OS released in 1988.
>> When were the first Y2K versions of any of the DEC OSes released?
>> (Hint: some of them never had official Y2K releases!)
>>
>> bill
> 
> As far as I know, which may not be much, the VMS OS didn't need anything for Y2K.  Basic got the DATE4$() display function.
> 

In the year before 2K my job at DEC was to go round customers' sites running an automated check of their VMS layered 
products against a database of Y2K-ready versions.
No problem except for one customer who insisted we certify his VT100 terminals (remember those?) as Y2K ready.


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