My oldest was just hitting 5 and couldn't reach the breaker box. But I
was at work anyway. I'm pretty sure everybody showed up, including the
IT dept head. There was basically nothing to do. Maybe about 15
minutes after midnight I was looking at a console with a couple of
managers behind me and I said "Uh oh", and wow... they were all over me
looking for any kind of problem, probably just to have something to
report. I think it was a date formatted wrong in a WTO or similar -
nothing more. That might have been the extent of the Y2K problems I
remember seeing.
On 1/2/2020 2:52 PM, Phil Smith III wrote:
Hmm. I sent the post below, doesn't appear to have ever showed up, so retrying!
From: Phil Smith III
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2019 9:27 PM
To: ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu <mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu>
Subject: Re: it was 20 years ago today ....
Has it been 20 years since Y2K?? sometimes it seems like last year, other times
seems like another lifetime .....
How many of us had smartass kids hanging out in the basement who, at 12:00:01,
threw the main breaker? I know I did!
Like many of you, I was on call that night, took the 2AM-10AM shift (at
Sterling Software). Around 5AM when it was clear nothing was happening, we got
sent home. I did get a nice sweatshirt out of it.
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