Instead of ringing in the New Year with champagne, Will Trembaly and Rob Gonsalves have a slightly different plan: they'll be testing an invention that has been more than six months in the making.
Their Y2K Pops, which stands for The Year 2000 Presumed Obsolete Performing Symphony, will showcase computers at the Hynes Convention Center that play classical, popular and science fiction theme music with synchronized graphics.
There's even a "Semi-Conductor" to lead the symphony of computers.
"Most likely [the Semi-Conductor] will just wave a little stick. Maybe it will be a chopstick," Trembaly muses.
Aware of the potential for some Y2K-related computer problems, though, Gonsalves and Trembaly plan to keep a running scorecard of each system's performance.
As the millennium dawns, any computer failures, should they
occur, will be recorded, date and time, on a large scoreboard above the
demonstration floor.
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