there were some public digital clocks in my university that displayed "1900" afterward and so they turned them off and never fixed them or turned them again. th

there were some public digital clocks in my university that displayed "1900" afterward and so they turned them off and never fixed them or turned them again. that was the only effect of Y2K that I ever saw. I could see why people would be worried that banking software written in COBOL in 1983 would break and had to spend significant sums of money making sure it didn't. Since it was an extremely predictable problem with a specific, known, non-negotiable deadline everyone who had money to lose if there were a problem had plenty of time and incentive to prevent it.