[plug] Fire Dept and Y2K

[Leon Brooks]

>> On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Ralph Billes wrote:
>>> I mentioned Samba to a Tang sales guy and he said the
>>> Perth Fire Brigade has just replaced it due to data
>>> corruption problems.  He said a lot of stuff, but
>>> that was a concrete item worth repeating :)

>> From: Gary Allpike [SMTP:spice at spice.net.au]
>> I have a friend in the fire brigade.

>> They have just had new PC's installed in the stations.

>> With WINDOWS 3.1!!!!

>> My friend asked the firebrigade techo guy "Are these Y2K compliant"

>> and was met with a blank look...

>> I think this about sums up the technical ability of the Fire Brigade
>> IT section.

david.buddrige at mitswa.com.au wrote:
> ugh!... Nobody play with matches after Jan 1, 2000... u may not have anyone
> to help u if things go wrong...

Fire alarm? Oh, it's OK... we have 99 years and some months to respond
to it...

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 there were those who looked in vain for leading hands
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