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Re:Ask HN: Was the Y2K crisis real? by exikyut on Thursday March 12, 2020 @10:42PM (#22564238)
Oooh. Do you remember any notable number of systems turning into doorstops in the process?

I wonder what the practical mixture of NAND flash vs EEPROMs was. I understand NAND wasn't especially stable back then.

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Re:Ask HN: Was the Y2K crisis real? by o-__-o on Friday March 13, 2020 @03:19AM (#22565409)
EEPROM. And there has always been a reflash method for bricked firmwares for all AMI and Phoenix BIOS' as well. Insert disk with firmware, Hold a key, power on.

Once upon a time we got somewhere in the neighborhood of 1200 dell workstations and not a single one failed the bios upgrade. 10/10 would do again

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