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I know of at least one company that had to replace some computers with out-of-support OS that was not Y2K compliant. Big companies (banks, insurance, health ca
by JJMcJ 7y ago
I know of at least one company that had to replace some computers with out-of-support OS that was not Y2K compliant.
Big companies (banks, insurance, health care) had elaborate contingency plans.
There were some failures, but nothing to disrupt life for 99.9% of the population, unless you call a website that says it's
January 5, 19100
a failure.
There have been other problems. Day 10,000, but VAX and Unix systems, some programs had problems, once again mostly cause they didn't allow for the longer strings.