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Non-Date Aware Products (Year 2000 compliance not applicable)
239A Stress Wave TimerThese Metriguard products fall under one or more of the following categories:
a. The product is an entirely mechanical device.b. The product includes analog electronic circuits for data processing and these circuits work only with short time intervals and not with absolute time or dates or date calculations.
c. The product includes digital circuits and digital processing but has no inherent or implemented date functions or date calculating capability.
This makes these products insensitive to or unaware of any date and thus not affected by year 2000 compliance issues. For these products, neither performance nor functionality will be affected by any date prior to, during and after the year 2000.Date Aware Products/Options Subject To Year 2000 Compliance
340 E-Computer
340 Data Acquisition System
520 Grain Angle Indicator
7100 CLT with 020 PC Data System Option
7200 HCLT with 020 PC Data System Option
2600FX Data Acquisition System Option
E-Logger 7100 E-Logger Option (all versions)
The following descriptions show the latest software version available as of August 31, 1998. Earlier versions may be compliant but they have not been tested. Contact Metriguard if you wish to upgrade to the latest version. Software versions later than those shown will have been tested for compliance and will have at least the compliance of the version listed.
- Model 340 E-Computer with Program Version: 1.03 and 1.04 (English and metric unit versions)
- Model 340 Data Acquisition System with Program Version: 1.01
- Model 520 Grain Angle Indicator with Program Version: 1.01
These programs will perform and function normally for dates prior to, during and after the year 2000. Specifically, these programs have been tested with MS DOS 3.3, on typical computer hardware, for dates between January 1, 1980 and December 31, 2099. Operation beyond the year 2099 cannot be verified. The programs work correctly for the transition from December 31, 1999 to January 1, 2000 and for February 29, 2000.
These programs use a date function to date stamp data files. They do not perform any date calculations or allow any date input from the operator. The date function uses the date, with four digit year, returned by the operating system (see notes 1 and 2 below). If an incorrect year (or date) is returned by the operating system, the incorrect year will be listed in the data file. This does not otherwise affect the integrity of the data collected with the program. This date in the file has no affect on or relation to the file creation date assigned by the operating system. Programs and reports created by the user (not supplied by Metriguard) that make use of the date listed in a data file may need to be modified if incorrect dates are going to be returned by the operating system.
This system operates with the customer’s IBM compatible personal computer, BIOS and DOS operating system. Metriguard does not supply these components and therefore does not make any claims about year 2000 compliance for these items.
- Model 2600FX Data Acquisition Option
This product is available in two versions. The standard version uses the Model 340 Data Acquisition System software (ver 1.01) running on the customers computer. See the section for the 340 Data Acquisition System for year 2000 compliance information.
An optional version of this product that works with customer supplied communications software (e.g. PC Talk, HyperTerminal and etc.) is also manufactured. Metriguard makes no claims about year 2000 compliance for these communications programs. The embedded controller and firmware used in both versions of this product is not date aware so year 2000 compliance of these components is not applicable.
5. 7100 CLT with PC Data System Option Program Versions 1.50P5, 1.50P6 and 1.50P7 (PCDS150.EXE)
6. 7200 HCLT with PC Data System Option Program Versions 1.50P5, 1.50P6 and 1.50P7 (PCDS150.EXE)
These programs will perform and function normally for dates prior to, during and after the year 2000. Specifically, these programs have been tested on computer hardware equivalent to hardware Metriguard supplied with the original equipment for dates between January 1, 1980 and December 31, 2099. Operation beyond the year 2099 cannot be verified. These programs work correctly for the transition from December 31, 1999 to January 1, 2000 and for February 29, 2000.
These programs use Microsoft Windows 95. Metriguard makes no claims or statements about the year 2000 compliance of Microsoft Windows 95. Windows 95 is known to have minor compliance issues including, but not limited to, file dating and sorting. It is our best estimate, and our tests have shown, that these problems do not adversely affect the operation of these programs.
The PC Data System (PCDS) is a personal computer based data processing system option for the Model 7100 CLT and Model 7200 HCLT. It includes an industrial IBM compatible PC, BIOS, Windows 95 operating system and PCDS software. Our tests and compliance apply to the whole system as supplied by Metriguard. Substitution of any component with other than Metriguard supplied parts may affect compliance and is outside of Metriguard’s control.
These programs use a date function to date stamp data files. The programs do not perform any date calculations or allow any date input from the operator. The date function uses the date, with four-digit year, returned by the operating system. If an incorrect year (or date) is returned by the operating system, the incorrect year will be listed in the data file. This does not otherwise affect the integrity of the data collected with the program. Tests have shown that the computer hardware supplied by Metriguard correctly reports dates between January 1, 1980 and December 31, 2099. Programs and reports created by the user (not supplied by Metriguard) that make use of the date listed in a data file may need to be modified if incorrect dates are going to be returned by the operating system.
7. E-Logger Program versions: 1.01 (ELOGGER2.EXE) through 1.04 (ELOGGER5.EXE) and ELOGXTRA.EXE
These programs will perform and function normally for dates prior to, during and after the year 2000. Specifically, simulations have been run on typical computer hardware (MS DOS 3.3) with dates between January 1, 1980 and December 31, 2099. Operation beyond the year 2099 cannot be verified. The program works correctly for the transition from December 31, 1999 to January 1, 2000 and for February 29, 2000.
These programs use a date function to date stamp data files. The programs do not perform any date calculations or allow any date input from the operator. The date function uses the date, with four digit year, returned by the operating system (see notes 1 and 2 below). If an incorrect year (or date) is returned by the operating system, the incorrect year will be listed in the data file. This does not otherwise affect the integrity of the data collected with the program. Programs and reports created by the user (not supplied by Metriguard) that make use of the date listed in a data file may need to be modified if incorrect dates are going to be returned by the operating system.
These systems operate with the customer’s IBM compatible personal computer, BIOS and DOS operating system. Metriguard does not supply these components and therefore does not make any claims about year 2000 compliance for these items.
Notes:
Revision History:
Oct. 9, 1998 Original issue.
Nov. 2, 1998 Added compliance for 340 E-Computer software version 1.03 (English and metric). (corrected filename in footer 12-8-98)
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Posted 10/13/98
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