This has  been lying on my work partition for pretty much exactly two and a half
years now.
Remember that night when all the digits in the calendar flipped at the same
time, and half the world was supposed to be thrown into chaos as millions of
computers and other digital devices stopped wo
rking?
And then it all fizzled out and not much happened at all anyway, but that is a
different story!
Amiga users, of course, retained their calm in the eye of the storm because we
knew that our friendly machines had always been "Y2K proof". But one thing is
knowing, another is seeing. I happened to 
be home that night (so I've got no life; sue me!) and spent a couple of minutes
watching my 1200 make that transition I had simulated earlier (by changing the
system date).      
A few minutes past midnight I made a screen dump for obvious reasons called
"The_Proof". Then I rebooted and got "The_Final_Proof".
So this is not just a couple of screen dumps you are looking at, it's a small
cross section of history! 

ps: In the year and half that  have passed since New Year Day 2K I have upgraded
my hard disk, and the new one has a few more partitions. The pattern I am
looking at as I type this is the same, but t
he colours are a bit different. I dropped the clock because my monitor was
standing on top of my VCR which had it own clock, so I didn't really need one on
the screen as well. A few laid out icons ha
ve been added,but apart from that my screen looks pretty much the same. I am
still cracking RC5 keys too, but with a newer version of the program. The
contest is supposed to end some time this year, 
so if you are not already involved check out distributed.amiga.org now!

Asker, June 2002
Ragnar Fyri
ragnar.fyridaf.no
ICQ# 38891981

More info on previous works:
http://home.eunet.no/~rfyri/wontolla/DearAmy.html
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LhA Evaluation V1.38 - Copyright (c) 1991,92 Stefan Boberg.
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Listing of archive 'Proof.lha':
Original  Packed Ratio    Date     Time    Name
-------- ------- ----- --------- --------  -------------
   88860   40240 54.7% 08-Mar-02 19:15:48  The_Final_Proof
   90396   39443 56.3% 08-Mar-02 19:15:48  The_Proof
-------- ------- ----- --------- --------
  179256   79683 55.5% 22-Jun-102 16:32:50   2 files

Operation successful.

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[generic]                40240   88860  45.3% -lh5- 9feb Mar  8  2002 The_Final_Proof
[generic]                39443   90396  43.6% -lh5- 1d77 Mar  8  2002 The_Proof
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 Total         2 files   79683  179256  44.5%            Jun 26  2002