Y2K and Other Computers
Apple is rather smug about the Macintosh and Y2K compliance. They maintain that their hardware is totally compliant. Their Product Index is a comprehensive list of their products with the test results for each one. You will still need to check out the Y2K compliance of any third-party software however. Another good reference is Stephen Marshall's "The Macintosh Computer and the Year 2000 Problem" site at: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~marshall/Official/Documentation/Mac_Y2K.html.
The computers and operating system comprising the Chebucto Community Net are year 2000 compliant. The Chebucto Technical Committee is currently confirming that all file systems and databases are compliant and expect this process to be completed long before the end of December. It was discovered that three Pentium 166 PCs on the network had BIOSes that were not Y2K compliant and although this would not be a critical error for these machines as they each draw their time from a network time server and not their own BIOS, the BIOSes were replaced with newer Y2K compliant ones, completely fixing them.
You may direct comments or suggestions about this feature to: Andrew D. Wright, au141@chebucto.ns.ca
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