I heard a 'Y2K person' interviewed on NPR recently. Her point was that if the 
IT industry had done nothing in advance to remediate, we would have had utter 
chaos on 1/1/2000. But we did prepare. We undoubtedly overprepared, but by how 
much will forever remain a mystery. 

In the 90s Stewart Alsop famously predicted the end of the world. He retreated 
well before the event itself. We all buy insurance that we're thrilled not to 
utilize. That doesn't make it a waste. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of 
Schuffenhauer, Mark
Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2020 4:07 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: (External):Re: FW: Re: it was 20 years ago today ....

I remember all the hype, it really freaked people out.  I know people who quit 
work, liquidated everything and went off grid.  Many non-technical people were 
very concerned it was the end.  Minor non-y2k issues during the first few days 
were blown out of proportion.  Probably because of the scare tactics and 
uncertainty the contracting companies used to get y2k work.

One wonders how much companies paid for y2k work that wasn't needed.

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of 
Bill Dodge
Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2020 5:55 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: FW: Re: it was 20 years ago today ....

External Email

I was consulting at Arlington County, Virginia County Government.  My whole 
family was at a friend's house as was our tradition but I had to report to the 
IT Department by 11:30 PM even though I had been running a virtual machine 
whose date had been set to cross the threshold at least 10 times.  We were gone 
by 12:15.



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Bill Dodge






On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 15:19:52 -0800, Tom Brennan <t...@tombrennansoftware.com> 
wrote:

My oldest was just hitting 5 and couldn't reach the breaker box. But I was at 
work anyway. I'm pretty sure everybody showed up, including the IT dept head. 
There was basically nothing to do. Maybe about 15 minutes after midnight I was 
looking at a console with a couple of managers behind me and I said "Uh oh", 
and wow... they were all over me looking for any kind of problem, probably just 
to have something to report. I think it was a date formatted wrong in a WTO or 
similar - nothing more. That might have been the extent of the Y2K problems I 
remember seeing.

On 1/2/2020 2:52 PM, Phil Smith III wrote:
> Hmm. I sent the post below, doesn't appear to have ever showed up, so 
> retrying!
>
>
>
> From: Phil Smith III
> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2019 9:27 PM
> To: ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: it was 20 years ago today ....
>
>
>
>> Has it been 20 years since Y2K?? sometimes it seems like last year, other 
>> times seems like another lifetime .....
>
>
>
> How many of us had smartass kids hanging out in the basement who, at 
> 12:00:01, threw the main breaker? I know I did!
>
>
>
> Like many of you, I was on call that night, took the 2AM-10AM shift (at 
> Sterling Software). Around 5AM when it was clear nothing was happening, we 
> got sent home. I did get a nice sweatshirt out of it.


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