From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Y2K Issues
Date: 1998/11/07
Date: 1998-11-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <720n9r$gk9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: F1z5ow.8B@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl
In article <F1z5ow.8B@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl>,
jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk) wrote:
> dewarr@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> : 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.
>
> I do not know if the people writing those applications
had Y2K problems on
> their mind, but yes, definitively, banks have been
confronted with this
> problem for every application that involved long term
credits, like mortages,
> leasing (think: airplanes, oil platforms, and such) and
other long-term
> ventures for at least the last twenty years.
Twenty years = 1978, and of course we agree that people
were aware of Y2K then, indeed my post that started this
thread noted that.
But Robert Eachus claimed ten years earlier (late 60's),
and that I find dubious.
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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 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-10-20 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
[not found] ` <362B8D2F.802F42E6@lmco.com>
1998-10-20 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-23 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
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
1998-10-25 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1998-10-26 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-27 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-27 0:00 ` John Herro
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
1998-10-26 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
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 [this message]
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 ` 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 ` 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
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
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 ` adam
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Gautier.DeMontmollin
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1998-10-23 0:00 Condic, Marin D.
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