For those with old Packard Bell computers....

Finally got around to checking Y2K on an old 1993-94? Packard
Bell 486 desktop computer.  Instead of the usual date change check,
I downloaded their Year 2000 Test Utilities & Remedies at web site:
http://www.packardbell.com/y2k/pb/remedy.asp

The program is downloaded and put on the hard drive.  After
reading the instructions, the machine is readied with another floppy
which is loaded.  Shutdown and restarting starts the test, which
extends up to around the year 2008.

The first result was that the machine failed; but could be manually
set for 2000.  Future years thereafter were also in doubt.

Along the way, the program had a replacement file to try, and
that was put on the system.  The test continued and luckily it
passed them all.  The test program warned that date sensitive
material could not be run 24 hours a day with the fix, with any
kind of guarantee...  2000 and on will tell, if it really works
with SDR....

Meredith Lamb









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