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On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:07:49 -0800, jps wrote:

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.

I did not know anyone at IBM who took it seriously at all. Certainly
there was a lot of code that had to be changed but only for people who
had not updated their system in the early 90s. When I retired in 1996
we had already done Y2K compliance in our systems as part of the
ISO9000 fad. The IBM AT system (286 PC) was Y2K compliant.
dBase IV also was and that was a 1991? program. I found the old PC a
while ago that I had on my desk when I retired and that has not run
since 1996. Just for grins I cranked up the mirror of my parts
inventory system I wrote in 1992 and it ran just fine when I plugged
in a part usage in 2009. It whined a little that I had that part
sitting stocked and unused for 13 years ;-)

I bet China made a mint with Al Gores first big hoax on America...

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