QE, 1280s and Year 2000

Woodrow W. Conover (woody@acornnmr.com)
Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:25:40 -0800

DLD at Nicolet Madison thinks that the QE and its 1280 have no known problem
with the year 2000. The year date will just be 00. The QE is based on the
TMON operating system which should just keep on chugging past the year 2000.
The older Nicolet operating system was Dexter. Its method of date keeping
started in 1976 and ended in 1992. Nicolet supplied a patch which started
again in 1992 and will run out in 16 years, if anyone has an old Dexter
system still operating then.

The Dexter operating systems did not quit working at the end of its clock
cycle in 1992, it just started over indicating a date 16 years ago. DLD at
Nicolet thinks that the 1280 TMON system will indicate that the date is 00
(zero, zero). This may give some problems with directory order of files by
date but should not cause any problem with instrument operation. The best
part of having the year start over at 00 is that we will not have to hear
about the Y2K type bug again until year 2100. It is likely that nobody will
be using a 1280 computer then.

The Omega systems are based on SUNs, and I would suggest you look at:

http://www.sun.com/980218/y2000/

for information about SUN computers and the year 2000.

woody@acornnmr.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles L. Anderson [mailto:shiulong@bayou.uh.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 1998 7:17 AM
To: ammrl@wwitch.unl.edu
Subject: Year 2000

With the recent talks here about the presence of a year 2000 bug in Bruker
software. It raised a red flag with me. Does anyone know if this is a
problem with the two GE QE-300 we have? We are still using the old Nicolet
1280 computers that came with the them.

Chuck

Charles L. Anderson, Ph.D.
Manager NMR Facilities
Department of Chemistry
University of Houston
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