We are running three BD FacScan machines with HP computers running LYSYS II. We have kept with this combination mainly because we make extensive use of the automated FACSmate sampler which is not supported on the MAC OS. Our data from many years is also backed up on MO discs formatted under the HP operating system. We have been informed by the BD service engineer that this hardware / software combination will definitely suffer from the year 2000 problem but it is not clear to us just what the consequences of this will be. Does anyone on this list have full information as to whether the bug will merely be an inconvenience to us eg file dates will be wrong. Alternatively will the machines stop functioning and will we lose the ability to access our archived data? I do hope it's not the worse case! Mike Clark, <URL:http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/~mrc7/> -- o/ \\ // || ,_ o M.R. Clark, PhD. Division of Immunology <\__,\\ // __o || / /\, Cambridge University, Dept. Pathology "> || _`\<,_ // \\ \> | Tennis Court Rd., Cambridge CB2 1QP ` || (_)/ (_) // \\ \_ Tel.+44 1223 333705 Fax.+44 1223 333875
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