just a reminder

-- dave (wootendave@hotmail.com), June 21, 1999

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Here in the Seattle area, that episode was shown last Monday...

-- Don (whytocay@hotmail.com), June 21, 1999.

We saw it the first time it aired -- well worth watching! Funny and right-on ;^D

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), June 21, 1999.

In my area, it's on UPN tonight at 8 PM. I saw it the first time around too--the humor in it is great!

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), June 21, 1999.

What channel? I'd like to see it.

mb in NC

-- mb (mdbutler@coastalnet.com), June 21, 1999.

The episode was funny but I have a feeling that too many people consider Y2K no more relevant that a half hour plot on an animated prime time tee vee show. What was particularly disturbing is how the end of the show focused in on how dumb it was (the bank scene) to expect any problems with the millenium bug, and only nitwits would plan to expect any.

Well, thats show biz for ya.

-- (y2k@sucks.com), June 21, 1999.

Well, I watched that Dilbert show tonight. Pretty darn good, I'd say. They seemed to catch all the relevant stuff that we talk about here, and in a way that seemed to jibe with the reactions that I get. One of the best parts was seeing a real main frame, heavy iron machine, in action. Never saw one of those before. Ahhhh Chuwawa, no wonder they're having so much trouble fixing those babies. Bet the DoD is full of machines just like that. Now I'm *really* scared. I don't want to hear any more happy face talk from the Polly crowd. We're doomed!

-- Gordon (gpconnolly@aol.com), June 21, 1999.

"One of the best parts was seeing a real main frame, heavy iron machine, in action. Never saw one of those before. "

Never saw one? Well, a mainframe is not like a PeeCee, minicomputer, or "server". A mainframe almost always has dedicated computer operators sitting in front of it constantly monitoring it, or automated software doing the monitoring, with operators checking the automated software. The dilbert "single access point" for an operator was misleading.

As for the programming, though, Wally reminded me a great deal of a gentleman where I used to work. Indeed, most of the old guys have "gone south", and the new guys only study the ancient computer languages in history class.

-- Anonymous99 (Anonymous99@Anonymous99.xxx), June 22, 1999.