As all large institutions who rely to a greater or lesser degree on computing, the University of Waterloo is preparing for the infamous Y2K millennium computer bug that is the cause of much dubiously justified panic. IST is selling a diskette at the CHIP in MC 1052 to test PCs' year 2000 hardware compliance.
Some testing is complete on campus PCs, and well under way on the student-designed legacy systems.
The university has purchased a completely new student system from Peoplesoft, but implementation will now be put off until after the turn of the millennium. Because of the different versions of Unix set up on campus, IST is unable to repair problems in all versions. IST is recommending that any Y2K-related concerns be addressed directly to departmental computing support staff.