When I joined Mitre Corporation in 1971, my first TIAA-CREF end-of-year
retirement statement predicted benefits I'd receive starting February 1,
2012. I suspect they'd been calculating/storing/displaying 21st century
dates long before they needed one for me. Banks, insurance companies,
investment organizations, etc. handled this routinely because they had
to; no tradeoff was available for them between data storage and
now/later handling far-off dates. Others could/did ignore Y2K because
their business didn't depend on handling it. For a while.
Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> said
We had well over 20 years of warning on Y2K; management preferred to
ignore it. Apres moi le deluge (the balloon won't go up before I retire.)
--
Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. [email protected]
3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold Twitter: GabeG0
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