<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>-mb</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 10:20 PM, trent shipley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trent.shipley@gmail.com" target="_blank">trent.shipley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>Trent.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 9:39 PM Steve Litt <<a href="mailto:slitt@troubleshooters.com" target="_blank">slitt@troubleshooters.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 06:54:17 -0500<br>
Matthew Crews <<a href="mailto:mailinglists@mattcrews.com" target="_blank">mailinglists@mattcrews.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Man, Y2K seems like at eternity ago. I knew back then that nothing<br>
> world-ending was going to happen, but I expected there to be major<br>
> hiccups. Thankfully there were only minor hiccups since everyone<br>
> worked their butts off on correcting Y2K bugs.<br>
><br>
> The year 2038 problem might be a similar result.<br>
<br>
In my wildest imagination, I can't conceive of a situation in which 32<br>
bit computers are still used in 2038. And if there are still 32 bit<br>
computers in use, our society probably has much worse problems than a<br>
date flipover could ever produce.<br>
<br>
SteveT<br>
<br>
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