Alex:
I attach here a response from our DNA sequencing team.
"no, of course there's no problem. There was a report of a potential
vulnerability to attack (not in Appletalk, but in Open Transport TCP/IP
stack) in Mac OS 9, not Y2K related, maybe this is what they're referring
to. We've had absolutely no problems and the Mac OS (unlike MS Windows)
has been Y2K-OK for years"
Tony
...At 05:21 PM 1/4/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Dears,
>
>I have just experienced an interesting problem with the Mac running an ABI
>377. We have a 377 purchased with the 96 upgrade, but it seems that this is
>not the core of the problem. According to ABI the problem is in the
>AppleTalk and they acknowledged that today was the worse day, as they had
>hundred of calls from users reporting the exact same situation. This glitch
>creates a complete break in the communication between the 377 instrument and
>the Mac. In my case, I had to reinstall the collection software to fix the
>problem, but other user did not have to go that far. I am interested in
>knowing if other 377 users have experienced a similar problem in the first
>run of the millennium.
>
>Best regards
>
>Dr. Alex da Silva
>
>CDC
>Atlanta, GA
>abs8@cdc.gov
>
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