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: dewarr@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Y2K Issues Date: 1998/11/07 Message-ID: <720n9r$gk9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 409263046 References: <362B53A3.64E266AB@res.raytheon.com> <362B8D2F.802F42E6@lmco.com> <710nnc$jop@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <713nvs$cv8$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <71acr3$do4$1@husk.cso.niu.edu> <363E5AAC.E2F0AB7D@flinet.com> <71sbsc$5q5$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x2.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat Nov 07 05:54:03 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1998-11-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own