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Really? The chips in Australia must be different. I didn't "upgrade" anything (comp, playstation or megastar, microwave, fridge)[I could reset my pc to any date in those days] and nothing happened. No planes fell from the sky either.
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@tychotithonus @robertatcara Told by whom? I mean, I don't expect anyone to remember specific sources from 20+ years ago. :D But a few outlandish claims to sell newspaper/TV ads is not a justification to disregard legitimate calls to action. There's a big distance between "a few news sources were super exaggerated" and "the entire news industry claimed that harm was irrevocably imminent, like a giant meteor in the sky" @tychotithonus @robertatcara In what context were you in a position to absorb the perspective of "tech"? Did you maintain any tech at scale during that era, beyond your own PC? @LetsRoc @tychotithonus @robertatcara IIRC an Australian bank had issues in 2010 when all their ATMs started rejecting cards. The Y2K fix they had implemented was to treat the last two digits of the year as hexadecimal, so come 1/1/2010 they thought it was 2016 and therefore all the cards were out of date! Edit: it was PoS machines in Australia; the ATM issue was in Germany https://www.computerworld.com/article/2759546/y2k-all-over-again-in-2010-.amp.html |
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(Let's just stipulate for the moment that you're replying in good faith, and not adding fuel to the denialism fire with your "no planes fell from the sky" finish.)
Or perhaps the chips in ATMs and the chips in PCs were different at that time. The system was based on x86 architecture generally, but - unsurprisingly - had a number of specialized components.
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