Regarding the "millenium bug" and Beckman System Gold, there is no
evidence that older versions of Gold will crash when the millenium hits.
Beckman simply has not tested other versions of Gold than the current
8.1 version (and has no plans to do so). It is very unlikely that any
version of Gold would crash the PC because of this problem; it might
only report the date incorrectly. The same holds true for most
chromatographic analysis programs because they report the date but do
not calculate anything with it.
But remember that regardless of what software package you run (Gold or
any other) you must have a *Year 2000 Compliant Computer*. Most
programs just read the PC's clock/calendar -- if that's wrong even Year
2000 certified software can't fix it.
To get information on checking your PC for compliance, and for
practically anything else you could ever want to know about this issue,
visit the official year 2000 web site
Regards,
Harry
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>Hi to all instrument users,
>
>As an aside for labs using Beckman System Gold. In the next millennium
you
>will have to use version 8.1 or higher to be in "Year 2000 Compliance"
or
>your system will CRASH. Older hardware can also crash into the next
>millennium. Beckman has set up an email address for questions
concerning
>year 2000 compliance of their instrumnets.
>
> year2000@beckman.com
>
>I hope other instrument makers will set up similar email addresses and
>notify us of them on this electronic discussion bulletin board. The
next
>millennium is only 18 months away and if we need to buy new software
and
>hardware for our lab instruments we need to budget for them, get the
>money, and make the purchases and installation before Jan.1, 2000.
>
>P.S. Don't buy any instrument that is not in "Year 2000 Compliance"!
>
>-Lowell. Ericsson, Dept. of Biochemistry, U. Washington, Seattle, WA
>
>
>
> On Wed,29 Jul 1998, Heather A. LeBlanc wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> We have an ABI 420A that we use for our Amino Acid Analysis. We
use
>> Beckman System Gold to integrate and process the data. However, we
are
>> starting to have some problems with our computer( a 10 year old Epson
>> Equity II+). It is giving us some problems booting up and we fear
perhaps
>> the computer is dying on us. My question is, does anyone know of any
other
>> integration software that is good for AAA and preferably will work on
>> Macintosh Systems? Any info would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Heather
>>
>> Heather A LeBlanc
>> MIT Biopolymers Lab
>> Cambridge, MA 02139
>> 617-253-7038
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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