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To: John Mansfield who wrote (638)	12/5/1997 3:47:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) of 9818

John, Unfortunately, it would probably take at least a 500% salary increase for non-Y2K programmers to decide to work on Y2K. Ain't gonna happen. COBOL stuff is not fun. It's boring. Besides, if they took a step back to work on things like COBOL ... they'd be behind in the ballgame, when they wanted to get back into what they REALLY wanted to do. But ... you'd get a LOT of new, inexperienced people who would jump at the chance for the big bucks. My fear is that a couple of years down the road programmers & engineers will be drafted by the government. When, and if, that happened ... all instructions will be hand-written, with carbon copies. Remember mimeograph machines? Cheryl

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