All Proves A-OK at Harvard After Y2K

On New Year's Eve, both Harvard and the City of Cambridge had teams of computer experts prepared to deal with potential millennium computer problems. But when the clocks changed over, there was nothing to fix.

Scott O. Bradner, senior technical consultant for Harvard's University Information Services, said he received no reports of any problems stemming from Y2K.

"There were no Harvard-related problems, and no issues have come up," Bradner said.

New Year's Eve, Bradner and Liz T. Eagan, the co-leaders of Harvard's Y2K project, remained on campus until 2:15 a.m. Jan. 1 to make sure there were no major problems.

Individual project and department heads also remained in contact with Bradner and Eagan, but none of them reported any problems, Bradner said.

In Cambridge, Y2K glitches were just as scarce, according to Ini Tomeu, a public information officer for the city.

"Everything went very smoothly," she said. "Although we expected no problems, we activated our emergency center to address any problems and had the emergency management department monitoring global events."

Tomeu said the lack of problems was partly due to Cambridge's two-year effort to make all systems Y2K compliant.