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31 December, 1999: Ten Years Ago Today...

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OHTBGH

...Sitting in the studio at WBAP-AM covering Y2K live with Dan Potter.

Oh and my laptop hard drive overheating live on the air! LOL!

No worries. So we close out at 1am and go upstairs to Cacharel to toast the new year with the rest of the crew.

2:15am: At the Whataburger at mayfield and 360 in Arlington getting the first breakfast of the new decade.

Come to think of it, I believe I have digital pics of Potter celebrating the New Year as well.

Ah, good times!

-BGH
 
Can you share the pics? ;)

10 years ago I was on contract working for Microsoft and even they didn't know what was going to happen when we hit the year 2000 :eek: :-X ;D
 
New Year's Eve 1999, I was doing 7-Midnight at K*LUV and everybody was there... due to the Y2K 'scare'. When I say everybody....the PD, Chuck Brinkman, APD Jay Cresswell, GM, Dave Seibert, and the engineer, Bill Taylor (who was also the I.T.person then), was stationed at the transmitter, all to mitigate any catastrophes that were supposed to occur. Well...nothing happened...hilarious! At midnight.we all said our 'Happy New Years' shrugged our shoulders and went home.....all, that is, except Jay who stayed and did Midnight to 6.....uh...live (lol)...
 
Steve Eberhart said:
A "live" overnight shift...yep, that WAS a long time ago!!
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I remember those days....cracking open the mike at 3 AM...trying desperately
not to sound like a zombie...drinking copious amounts of coffee to stay awake...
Running between prod room and studio trying to jock, and do production all
at the same time...All for the third shift workers, and those whack jobs and
groupies calling on the request line...Aaah, yes....those were the days... ;D
 
OHTBGH said:
...Sitting in the studio at WBAP-AM covering Y2K live with Dan Potter.

Oh and my laptop hard drive overheating live on the air! LOL!

No worries. So we close out at 1am and go upstairs to Cacharel to toast the new year with the rest of the crew.

2:15am: At the Whataburger at mayfield and 360 in Arlington getting the first breakfast of the new decade.

Come to think of it, I believe I have digital pics of Potter celebrating the New Year as well.

Ah, good times!

-BGH
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So, I'd like to see the pictures too. ;D That was a great night....best anticlimactic wall-to-wall coverage ever! And, by the time we got up to Cacharel after midnight, the party was ON!

Dan
 
I remember taking my "spare vehicle", a 1984 Delta 88, out to make sure everything was working properly and fill the gas tank.

If Y2K became a reality, I'd be fine because my carbuerated, non-computer controlled Oldsmobile V-8 would take me wherever I needed to go!
 
Any GM from 1981-on was computer controlled, and the Oldsmobile Cutlass was the first GM to get the computer back in 1980. You might have been sunk in your 1984 Delta 88...but not too bad a ride to be stuck in!

Now it WAS possible to install a non-computer-controlled carb on an early-80s GM and circumvent the computer system. Tried that on my 1982 Monte Carlo, but couldn't find a comparable match from the non-computer days. Nice car, but what a piece. After dumping out of that dog of a car, I never owned another 80s GM anything ever again. I sold it and bought a 1977 Chevy Malibu!

And, to keep this radio-related, the Malibu had an in-dash AM-FM-cassette with RECORDER. Go figure.
 
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