> On May 25, 2017, at 1:38 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson <jesse1.robin...@sce.com> wrote: > > (Projecting my voice to Kiribati.) I took the keenest interest in the > televised Y2K celebration Down Under, many hours before a similar fate would > befall the US Left Coast. The lights stayed on in Sydney. No objects fell > from the sky. No panic or chaos ensued. It was a great comfort as I took a > peaceful nap in preparation for my midnight shift in the data center. > > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 323-715-0595 Mobile > 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW > robin...@sce.com <mailto:robin...@sce.com> >
Skip: The company I was working for at the time was ill prepared for Y2K. Somehow they did get through it but I think it was more of dumb luck than anything they did. They thought they were prepared by going out and buying a new computer but didn’t want to buy a COBOL compiler (they thought they could just run their current one which was 6-9 years out of date. They did recognize that their stupid in house security package was obsolete and went RACF but they fought every penny spent. How foolish. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
