From: Al Christians <achrist@easystreet.com>
Subject: Re: Y2K Issues
Date: 1998/10/29
Date: 1998-10-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3638C9CB.71A5D86E@easystreet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 71acr3$do4$1@husk.cso.niu.edu
system@niuhep.physics.niu.edu wrote:
>
> dewarr@my-dejanews.com writes:
>
> >Someone reminded me that I first mentioned the Y2K problem to them in 1975,
> >and certainly I was not the only one to forsee this problem.
>
> Show of hands please,
>
> Who was aware of the Y2K problem before 1995? 1990? 1985? 1980? 1975?
>
> Who was aware of the Y2K problem as it affects embedded programs before
> 1995? 1990? 1985? 1980? 1975?
>
> There is a group on campus making allegations of a gov't coverup....
>
I first became aware of the possible magnitude of the Yr2k panic back
around 1978, when a friend told me of a session on the topic at a SHARE
(big IBM mainframe users' group) meeting. So it was not a total coverup
back in the years when Ada 83 was being put together.
I made appropriate note of the oncoming debacle, and have ever since
been relatively successful at abating production of Y2k bugs in those
spheres where I have influence. This means, of course, that I have
little experience fixing Y2k bugs, and I am thus not qualified for
all the big-money Y2k contracts now available.
Al
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-19 0:00 Y2K Issues John J Cupak Jr
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-10-20 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
[not found] ` <362B8D2F.802F42E6@lmco.com>
1998-10-20 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-22 0:00 ` Mark Bennison
1998-10-22 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-20 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-23 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-10-25 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1998-10-26 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-27 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-27 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-27 0:00 ` Y2K Issues (well, not really...) Dave Wood
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Y2K Issues dennison
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1998-10-27 0:00 ` John Herro
1998-10-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-10-26 0:00 ` Joel Seidman
1998-10-26 0:00 ` Y2K Issues - Warning Off-Topic Al Christians
1998-10-27 0:00 ` Y2K Issues dewarr
1998-10-27 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-29 0:00 ` system
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Al Christians [this message]
1998-11-02 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-11-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-11-05 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-06 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-11-06 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-07 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-06 0:00 ` Al Christians
1998-11-08 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-08 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-27 0:00 ` Gautier de Montmollin
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Arthur Evans Jr
1998-10-28 0:00 ` adam
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Al Christians
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1998-11-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-28 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Gautier.DeMontmollin
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-29 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-31 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-02 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-30 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-31 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-28 0:00 ` adam
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Gautier.DeMontmollin
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1998-10-23 0:00 Condic, Marin D.
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