Re: NB3, old hardware, and y2k

["Philip Stokes" <philip.stokes@nospam.btinternet.com>]

I have news which is boringly encouraging - a relative has my oldest
computer which runs with whatever processor it was that preceded the 286
[yes!] and NB3. After New Year he asked me to go round, and I sat down with
the manuals opened and feeling that it might be a matter of extreme unction,
or at least grave difficulty. This seemed to be justified when I saw the
strangeness of the first screen, but it turned out to be because the
batteries had run out, and once they'd been fixed ... well it was up and
away and tallyho and any other joyful expression disapproved of by Tony the
Vicar Blair. In other words, dates were resettable, appeared in the
accustomed pattern and it was a perfect world again.

Philip Stokes
Nottingham
----- Original Message -----
From: Dorothy Day <day@nospam.indiana.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE <notabene@nospam.piper.hamline.edu>
Sent: 04 January 2000 04:46
Subject: NB3, old hardware, and y2k


>
> I'd like to hear the most bizarre stories encountered so far with older
> machines and the y2k rollover. I've received a request for help from an
> old NBer who is running NB3.1 under an undetermined (old) version of
> DOS on an old 386. He claims that he can print files on that machine,
> but can't edit or save them in NB3.1--strange messages about date
> problems and garbagy display. His near-finished book is at stake.
>
> Before I go to see the beast in action, I'd like to hear if anyone else
> is getting erratic behavior related to date on a 386 computer. I can
> think of a couple of tricks to try, but would like a few more in my pack
> before I start.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Dorothy
>
>
> *****
> Dorothy Day
> School of Library & Information Science
> Indiana University
> day@nospam.indiana.edu
> *****
>
> "He also surfs who only sits and waits."