Hi Charles,
Right you are. For my senior project (1979), I personally wrote some very non-Y2K compliant COBOL code. It was a major enhancement to a payroll system for a city that was running a Burroughs 1800 at the time. They were so short on memory that everthing else had to be shut down in order to run payroll. Nobody thought about any of the date formats or Y2K at the time and it wouldn't have mattered. The code had to be very lean in order to get it to run on that machine. I'm sure that it was the same way at many other shops too. That payroll system was remediated for Y2K. Linda Mooney ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Mills" <charl...@mcn.org> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 7:07:58 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: Of interest to the Independent Contractors on the list Um ... the Y2K "thingie" was real. Without the efforts of a lot of the people on this list data processing as we know it WOULD have come to an end. You're falling into the "that saw doesn't need that safety guard" fallacy: "That saw doesn't need that safety guard ... no one has cut a finger off in it for years." And yes, states ARE looking to crack down on "independent" contractors. Easy money in this time of crunch. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Anton Britz Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 5:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Of interest to the Independent Contractors on the list This type of article re-appears every two years.. It's suppose to make you "fear" and maybe you will subscribe to their magazine. Remember the Y2K thing'gie ? How many of those "Prophets of Doom" knew what they were talking about but it worked for most executives. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
