Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 12:37:27 -0500
Subject: Re: LLTI Digest - 25 Mar 1999 to 29 Mar 1999 (#1999-7)
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From: [log in to unmask] (Gordon Hartig)

>Subject: Y2K and VCR
>>> New VCR Setting for 2000
>>>
>>> Here is something I bet you hadn't thought would be an issue for Y2K.
>>> You won't be able to use the programmed recording feature on your VCR.
>>>
>>>Do not throw away your VCR in the year 2000.  Set it on 1972 because
>>>the days will be the same.  Please pass this on...Received: from
>skye1.skyenet.net ([log in to unmask] [162.142.242.20])
>
This depends on the VCR.  I have a 12-year-old Mitsubishi VCR at home that
has no year setting.  And the inexpensive Symphonic VCR I purchased in
1992 or 1993 can be set until the year 2025.  The JVC VCRs in my lab have
only a 2-digit date for the year, though, so we may have to resort to such
tricks if we ever decide to use them for timed recording.

Gordon Hartig
Language Lab Coordinator
Middlesex Community College
33 Kearney Square
Lowell MA  01852
(978) 656-3358