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From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Y2K Issues
Date: 1998/11/05
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In article <EACHUS.98Nov4181012@spectre.mitre.org>,
  eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) wrote:

    There are a lot of people who were aware of the Y2K problem in the
> late sixties, and it is very embarrassing that a lot of banks who
> fixed their loan software in time for 1970 (for thirty year mortages)
> failed to take the lesson to heart and require that any new software
> be Y2K compliant back then.


That's a claim that definitely needs convincing evidence. I do not believe
for a moment that it was true. Please cite chapter and printed verse on this.

Robert Dewar

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