Subj : Re: Y2K again..? was: Note f To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Thu Feb 06 2020 02:02:40 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 31-Jan-2020 08:23 <=- NB>>>> Perhaps the authors of those kick-it-down-the-road fixes aren't NB>>>> around any more or forgot it would eventually loom again... it was, NB>>>> after all, 20 years ago.... BM>>> I would guess a combination of all options. I didn't read anything; BM>>> admittedly I'm not "in the loop" but usually read in the techier stuff BM>>> of potential problems. NB>>> I don't think that Richard had heard anything ahead of time, either... BM>> OK -- not that I'm concerned with being out of the loop, but nice to BM>> know I was sort of caught unawares also. NB>> An unexpected "gotcha".... BM> Yes; LIS like being aware of potential problems/issues - I can't do BM> much about them in the way of programming/fix but nice to know BM> something could be happening and monitor the situation. ...Quite sure BM> other similar issues have snuck by. And as long as they get fixed or don't really affect things too much, not really a problem... NB>>> Must have seemed equitable to you at the time... otherwise, I'd expect NB>>> that you'd remember it more vividly... ;) Especially as you kept NB>>> using it for quite a while longer... ;) BM>> Right: probably more along an upgrade price as opposed to a brand new BM>> version price. NB>> Which would make sense.... :) When the author of the BlueWave NB>> Reader came out with an entirely new version, he offered to register NB>> the new one for free for a limited time to those who had registered NB>> the original version... I did take advantage of that... :) BM> Good and good. The free probably cost him a little bit (not getting BM> paid for his work) but may have also saved him work supporting old BM> versions which were now replaced by his new one. And could have BM> created money with the customers using upgrades to the new version BM> telling users of other products how good the new and improved BlueWave BM> is. (That made a lot more sense in my mind when I only had to use BM> thoughts and not words!) Telling other users about the upgraded product, anyway... I don't know what other products, if any, Cutting Edge produced... But he did write a full line of readers and BBS offline doors for BlueWave, for different platforms and bbs softwares... :) BM>> Back to the local repacking, Ch. 6 was the first one, but delayed BM>> because of weather, and some of the weather delay was at whatever BM>> station the tower crews were working on before coming here, some BM>> weather delays due to the bad weather locally. As for the other BM>> stations, just didn't say much. NB>> As I'm not watching the TV at all, I wasn't really paying attention NB>> until Richard started talking about it.... :) BM> Right: TV? Oh, yeah, that monitor-like thing in the corner. Yup, something like that.... :) ttyl neb .... He enjoys a reputation as a master pig cooker. (He's a pig whisperer!) --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .