New Years Eve 1999
Happy 2000 from the Brasic and McLeod families!!
Happy year 2K to everyone from us here at the farm. The Year 2000 rolled in without adverse event here or anywhere else we could see from the CNN broadcasts we watched all day yesterday and last night. Lori, I and the kids had a sublime evening with Melanie and Mike and his son Sam. We toasted in the new year with Champagne and an evening of conversation and good cheer. Hope all are healthy, happy, and content.
Dawn of a new Millennium
The new millennium dawned clear and cold with a beautiful star filled sky. The bright object is the cresent moon.
Everyone got up to see it, then went back to sleep, it was a late night!
Millenium Bug Watch
Find out if our vintage 1983 IBM Series A PC rolls over or goes under. We will have all the computers going on a network game tonight, but this old IBM PC is just running a clock application, we'll see if it makes it past midnight (photos will be posted).
Our Y2K Network Application Test
I set up a 10baseT network for the kids to play some networked games. They are playing Warcraft II here using my old SMC ethernet hub and three PC's that run the gamut of PC technology: Sam (right) is using Logan's original Pentium 266 MMX machine, Linden (center) is using an old 486-66 machine, and Logan (left) is on a new Pentium III (550 mHz) Dell Laptop.
Passes the test with Flying Colors
The midnight hour comes and goes, the only problem manifested is the computer players zapping Linden. Otherwise they continue using their PC's without incident.
The Little PC that Did!
Guess what? The old Series A IBM PC kept going after midnight!! This old reliable piece of computer history proved more robust than the dreaded Y2K bug. Fortunately I didn't have to pay to get a consultants OK to run this thing through midnight, that might have been costly.
