OT Sort of, T2K meets Y2K

[mikeo80]

AS I was writing the last post on the mental stability of Europeans, a thought struck me. (Yeah, I know, me, think ????? )

Military computers could be postulated to be hardened, so that more of them could be used afte the nuclear exchange.

Then postulate that with the war, programers were not able to spend as much time on Y2K as what happened in OT. Loss of funding due to war, loss of programers due to nuke exchange.

(In OT, I was one of those who spent HOURS and HOURS preping for Y2K.)

Just when you thought it was safe to come out and play, here is another reason to stay in your bunker and hide!!!

Any survivng computers reset to 1900!!! That should put a monkey wrench into any planning sessions and such.

[Legbreaker]

If the computers didn't have to be networked, I can't see any great issues. Sure it'd be annoying, but world shattering? I think not.
However, anything more advanced than the average 386 that needs to communicate with other machines could be problematic - right up until somebody decides to synchronise the internal clocks, etc
Basically in a T2k environment, any computer, even a malfunctioning one suffering from Y2K is going to be useful.