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"By 2000 I don't think this will matter." - 1978

• LeonM 12y ago
  Well, seriously, how much did it really matter in 2000? How much systems from the 70's were still in use in the year 2k? And how much of them actually failed? Even my IBM 8086 was y2k compliant. I do know some people (even those who had no technical background or whatsoever) that made ridiculous amounts of money by "consulting" about the y2k problem. My retirement plan is consulting on the y2k38 problem. However, as opposed to the y2k witch-hunt, this problem is very real. Preparing systems to be y2k38 ready actually requires work to be done...
  • chrismcb 12y ago
    The y2K problem was very real as well. A lot of the systems were still in place, and a TON of work happened at the end of the 90s to solve the y2K problem. The fact that not many of them failed showed the success of the Herculean effort to solve the problem.