""There was a problem with an old character generator that used an 80296 processor," Graham wrote. "The clock had stopped at midnight and the machine just froze.""
""One interesting and unanticipated problem was people shooting weapons," Graham told on Call. "In at least one case a merrymaker shot a distribution amplifier, knocking out cable for their neighbors. There was some discussion as to whether to include the outage on the Y2K dashboard or not.""
""I was confident that nothing serious would go wrong and that my users could continue to work from home," he told On Call."
""At around 4pm everything electrical stopped working," he told The Register. "I felt the bottom drop out from under me. Were the doomsday predictions true?""
A cable television network experienced a legacy hardware failure when an 80296-based character generator's clock stopped at midnight, freezing the device until a reboot restored service. Preparations by the operations team limited impact and allowed quick recovery. An unanticipated human-caused outage occurred when a partygoer shot a distribution amplifier, cutting service for neighbors and prompting debate over whether to classify the outage as Y2K-related. A university systems manager kept Unix servers powered to support remote users, then encountered a localized electrical failure that alarmed staff. Most anticipated catastrophic failures did not materialize, and simple fixes resolved several incidents.
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