Hi all, I'm Brian - I am based in Waterford, Ireland, and have just joined today. I have a Mini 5 Pro which I love: I previously had a Holy Stone HS900 which was a great intro drone, but sadly met its end on the cliffs at Boatstrand harbour...
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...
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...