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jps

On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:48:14 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:36:46 -0800, jps wrote:

Y2K scam that destroyed the chip industry?

I agree, Y2K was one of the best things that happened to the computer
industry. Lots of people who only needed a little software patch,
bought a new machine.
Most of them would have been just fine if they simply rebooted their
machine in the morning and set the date.

I knew folks close to the action at Microsoft and they were freaked
out that air guidance systems were going to crash.

I'm sure it was blown out of proportion and there was certainly a lot
of work generated for cobol and fortran programmers.