At 08:20 AM 1/7/00 -0500, Paige Miller wrote:
>I read somewhere that a state government agency deliberately left three
>computers unfixed for Y2K and they crashed immediately and were useless.
the problem with this is .... how does one know that these 3 would not have
crashed even if there were 'fixes' done ... they could have been old
clunkers that were on the verge of going anyway ...
now, if the department had say 50 machines ... and split them in 1/2 at
random ... and "fixed" one half and did not fix the other half ... with a
large difference being observed ... we might make something of that ...
the inherent problem we have in this situation is that ... there is
essentially NO pre measure of 'incidents' of problems to compare the post
to ... all we really have is the assumption that there would be hell to pay
IF we did nothing (which MAY have been true but the design and available
info makes it tough to prove that ...)
>--
>Paige Miller
>Eastman Kodak Company
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