(April 13, 2020 at 10:51 am)Rhizomorph13 Wrote:(April 12, 2020 at 7:28 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Yeah. I was in IT at the time. I went in to work (3 sites) on a Sunday to check everything.
I was a reworker at Radisys working on Intel multibus boards. These were running in power plants and sundry other industrial equipment. The Y2K threat was real because BIOS back then would only index the last two digits so imagine a power plant thinking that the generators hadn't been serviced for 100 years! They would have been unable to turn them on. Around that time I spent lots of hours at work erasing e-proms and loading different firmware into them because they still used UV erasable ROMS. I knew enough kooks back then that were hoarding chicken and other bullshit prepper things like buying generators. sheesh
Not being terribly techno-savvy, even I understood the reason for concern regarding dates and how they were coded.
What still baffles me is the hoarding of toilet paper and paper towels because of a respiratory illness.
I suppose I can understand the lack of cleaning/disinfectant products and antibac soaps but the stockpiling of TP is a head scratcher.
I'm your huckleberry.
