<html><head></head><body>Had a vet run the clock back on the automatic blood analysis machine by one day. The sample vial had expired the day before and the system refused to run. It was the last vial in the clinic and the were closing for the day. The clock reset let the test complete and the cat was none the worse for wear and I saved a second visit.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On March 19, 2022 2:29:05 PM EDT, Allen Beddingfield via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><br>I'm pretty sure that for most cases, aside from the one running COBOL, they will just set the clock back a couple of decades and keep going.<br>--<br>Allen Beddingfield<br>Systems Engineer<br>Office of Information Technology<br>The University of Alabama<br>Office 205-348-2251<br>allen@ua.edu<hr>Well, those people have 13 years to find an alternative. I recently<br>converted one of my 1985 Turbo Pascal 3.0 programs to FreePascal on<br>Linux. If they were using Clipper, Foxpro, DBASE, etc, there's the<br>modern Harbour Project to convert to a modern Linux executable,<br>although obviously a few source code tweaks will need to be made.<br><br>I'm pretty sure a few source code tweaks are all that stand between an<br>SCO Openserver 5 Cobol program and a brand new GNUCobol program. 13<br>years.<br><br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Not everyone upgrades things that just work....<br></blockquote><br>I agree, almost completely. Upgraders following fashion trends deserve<br>what they get. But stuff breaks, and replacement parts become<br>unavailable, and eventually things that just work (until they don't)<br>become impractical.<br><br>SteveT<br><br>Steve Litt<br>March 2022 featured book: Making Mental Models: Advanced Edition<br><a href="http://www.troubleshooters.com/mmm">http://www.troubleshooters.com/mmm</a><hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool</body></html>