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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. 5 comments
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? |
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We were told anything with a computer chip would fail, including household items & planes.
I argued this from 1998. I deliberately didn't modify anything. The only thing that happened was the date changed. My computer was a 386 AT (pre pentium)