10 year old computers.
mine is going to do the same thing in 2099. also i cain't go before 1980
2007-12-06 05:45:46 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
multinational airports were using computers that ran on vacuum tubes. They were really really old.
Even if they weren't, they were still using software that was old.
In company accounting, there are legacy programs that were really really old that were written in COBOL that used two digit years to save room on tapes.
2007-12-06 05:51:27 · answer #1 · answered by jacbob 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, people and business were really using OLD computers. I worked on a Y2K testing team for a short while testing hospital equipment. Our first test was in front of the bigshots of the hospital. We asked for a piece of equipment to test and were given their "backup" heart-lung machine. This machine is supposed to keep blood pumping and rich with oxygen while heart transplants are performed. We killed it by having it change from Dec 31, 1999 to Jan 1, 2000 while powered off. It NEVER was able to be turned back on. It was very interesting to see several hospital administrators go absolutely white in the face all at once. We ended up killing a couple of other pieces of equipment during our 2-week inspection.
Computers have limits, and sometimes that limit is created by lack of forward thinking. I'd like to think we learned our lesson, but only time will tell.
2007-12-06 13:55:35 · answer #2 · answered by Michael B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We were concerned about banking, being unable to checkout at the grocer, buying gas, having water, power, etc. just about everything these days is computerized.
I was at a supermarket on a day when a local storm knocked out power in the area. I happened to have the exact change so I was able to pay and leave. Many other customers stood there with their full carts because they could not check out using their credit cards.
2007-12-06 14:28:57 · answer #3 · answered by TheHumbleOne 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It wasn't the age of the hardware. It was the age of the software / firmware. It all depended on how dates were stored. Lots of databases still store dates as text, not as a date/time data type.
2007-12-06 13:52:37 · answer #4 · answered by Joe C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Could possibly be.
2007-12-06 17:27:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋