[Default] On 22 Apr 2020 20:44:43 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [email protected] (Gabe Goldberg) wrote:
>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. One of the disquieting things for me at SHARE Y2K sessions was all the money banks and insurance companies were spending on Y2K. Clark Morris > >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.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
