2nd "Y2K" movie to air this Friday.
Taut, Racy Thriller Grabs Silicon Valley Viewers In Early Screening.
Bay Area techies, many somewhat disappointed by NBC's treatment of the Y2K crisis with their movie version of the upcoming disaster thrilled to a different treatment by the Family Channel.
"Y2K: We're All Going To Die.", a pulse-pounding, almost Hitchhock-ian thriller, starring Timothy Fay, was well received by a Bay Area crowd of technicians, who called it "Stunningly realistic."
"Timothy Fay isn't even an actor, he's an actual, real life programmer that works at the U of Minnesota." said one impressed viewer. "The whole time he was up there, I was thinking: "Whoa! He's one of us."
In this exciting scene, Tim must search
through databases for corrupt date feilds.
"We consulted with actual computer programmers for movie ideas." Said one Family Channel source. "The movie starts off on December 26th, 1999. While everyone else is home for the holidays, computer technician Timothy Fay works around the clock to fix his company's Year 2000 bugs. On December 30th, just when he thinks everything is ok, Tim finds a stand-alone LAN made up of 16 non-Y2K compliant PC's in the company's basement. From that point on, it's a non-stop race against the clock to get them compliant, or, to at very least, offset the tasks of those PC's to compliant PC's within the company. If he doesn't do this in time, the entire database for the old, backup food ordering system could get corrupt.
"The movie has many suspensful moments." admitted Mr. Fay, basking in his new-found celebrity status. "At one point, I'm up against 4 different types of old PC's that I'm unable to find a BIOS flash for. After searching the manufacturer's website, I go "underground" and call up an old friend who sends me the updates. It's exciting, because you never know if the BIOS flash is going to work."
Tim has the new BIOS, but are they
the right version?
"Y2K: We're All Going To Die." airs Friday night on the Family Channel.