From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92471489ebbc99c6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Al Christians Subject: Re: Y2K Issues Date: 1998/10/29 Message-ID: <3638C9CB.71A5D86E@easystreet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 406412376 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <362B53A3.64E266AB@res.raytheon.com> <362B8D2F.802F42E6@lmco.com> <710nnc$jop@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <713nvs$cv8$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <71acr3$do4$1@husk.cso.niu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news6.ispnews.com 909690758 206.103.56.244 (Thu, 29 Oct 1998 14:52:38 EDT) Organization: Trillium Resources Corporation MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 14:52:38 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-10-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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