I heard a 'Y2K person' interviewed on NPR recently. Her point was that if the IT industry had done nothing in advance to remediate, we would have had utter chaos on 1/1/2000. But we did prepare. We undoubtedly overprepared, but by how much will forever remain a mystery.
In the 90s Stewart Alsop famously predicted the end of the world. He retreated well before the event itself. We all buy insurance that we're thrilled not to utilize. That doesn't make it a waste. . . 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 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Schuffenhauer, Mark Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2020 4:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: FW: Re: it was 20 years ago today .... I remember all the hype, it really freaked people out. I know people who quit work, liquidated everything and went off grid. Many non-technical people were very concerned it was the end. Minor non-y2k issues during the first few days were blown out of proportion. Probably because of the scare tactics and uncertainty the contracting companies used to get y2k work. One wonders how much companies paid for y2k work that wasn't needed. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Bill Dodge Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2020 5:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FW: Re: it was 20 years ago today .... External Email I was consulting at Arlington County, Virginia County Government. My whole family was at a friend's house as was our tradition but I had to report to the IT Department by 11:30 PM even though I had been running a virtual machine whose date had been set to cross the threshold at least 10 times. We were gone by 12:15. --- Bill Dodge On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 15:19:52 -0800, Tom Brennan <t...@tombrennansoftware.com> wrote: 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 > 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
