I worked at IBM as an intern during the crossover, and there was a TON of internal activity. It might seem like there was nothing going on, but in fact, there w

I worked at IBM as an intern during the crossover, and there was a TON of internal activity. It might seem like there was nothing going on, but in fact, there were a lot of interns (like our entire intern class of about 200 that I know of, across entire IBM in all disciplines, research, database, microprocessors, AIX, QA, mainframes etc) who were basically doing the same thing - Y2K readiness for our respective departments. I worked in QA in one of their bank teller application development branch offices, so all I did for weeks was enter in date times between 99 and 00 into the software and test that the fixes were successful. The unique thing about Y2K was that the problem was well understood and came with an actual deadline, so you could project manage around it. Any normal bug couldn't be project managed this way, and you can't just throw interns at regular problems, whereas with Y2K, if you had the money, you can just assign people to look at every line of code to look for date handling code.