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You are talking about a hypothetical situation that didn't happen vs actual failures that took entire systems down. The Social Security administration spent millions to address Y2K, but they recognized the issue a decade earlier and started... -
In 1999, mainframes still ran the big companies of the world and IBM was still king. You are right, the smaller, newer systems were less affected, but the banks and insurance companies of the day all ran on big iron. Most of them still have a...
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RodPad reacted to Dmcvey's post in the thread Shipping this to Drone Nerds, is it worth it? with
Sad.
Sent a controller to Drone Nerds that was broken out of the box. That was February -
It was a bigger problem for people on older systems. For people using newer systems, it was less of an issue. In 1999, I worked on systems that had 2-digit dates and more modern systems where it wasn't an issue at all. We had addressed the...
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As someone who personally applied an IBM fix for an incredibly serious Y2K flaw only 6 months before Y2K (it shocked me no one had found it until then - IBM was calling companies telling them they REALLY needed to apply this fix - it was that...
