Y2K

[Michael Butash]

IBM showing up to charge to fix the problem they created.  Go figure, still
their modus operandi these days in their support and over all existence
model.

-mb

On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 10:20 PM, trent shipley <trent.shipley at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I remember stories of IBM octogenarians showing up to fix things at Luke
> Air Force Base (heard third hand). Mission critical stuff can REALLY get
> specification stuck.
>
> Trent.
>
> On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 9:39 PM Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 06:54:17 -0500
>> Matthew Crews <mailinglists at mattcrews.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Man, Y2K seems like at eternity ago. I knew back then that nothing
>> > world-ending was going to happen, but I expected there to be major
>> > hiccups. Thankfully there were only minor hiccups since everyone
>> > worked their butts off on correcting Y2K bugs.
>> >
>> > The year 2038 problem might be a similar result.
>>
>> In my wildest imagination, I can't conceive of a situation in which 32
>> bit computers are still used in 2038. And if there are still 32 bit
>> computers in use, our society probably has much worse problems than a
>> date flipover could ever produce.
>>
>> SteveT
>>
>> Steve Litt
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