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 believes that all file systems and databases are Y2K compliant. 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. A program that converted Unix timestamps to standard time was found to be non compliant and was replaced.
You may direct comments or suggestions about this feature to: Andrew D. Wright, au141@chebucto.ns.ca
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