Hi Linda, Yes, my point was, that it was EXAGGERATED using FEAR for profit purposes.
There was no need to upgrade all the Mainframes/Desktops/Servers/Operating systems etc.
The place I worked at, spent 16 Million Dollars, on upgrading all the PC's in the Organization and each PC received a Y2K sticker. ( You had to have that Sticker)
Note: At home, all my PC's survived the Y2K thing'gie.. Why do a thread always go totally the wrong way on IBM-MAIN... with most of it, just being noise ?
Anton On 5/17/2010 5:30 PM, Linda Mooney wrote:
Hi Charles, Right you are. For my senior project (1979), I personally wrote some very non-Y2K compliant COBOL code. It was a major enhancement to a payroll system for a city that was running a Burroughs 1800 at the time. They were so short on memory that everthing else had to be shut down in order to run payroll. Nobody thought about any of the date formats or Y2K at the time and it wouldn't have mattered. The code had to be very lean in order to get it to run on that machine. I'm sure that it was the same way at many other shops too. That payroll system was remediated for Y2K. Linda Mooney
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