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To: Road Walker who wrote (90712)10/20/1999 7:52:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Respond to of 186894
 
John - Re: "The Y2K boogyman is alive and well, thanks to IBM."

I'm afraid I agree.

Everyone will get punished because of IBM's ineptitude to properly deal with the issue.

This SUCKS because it was IBM's engineers that developed the two digit year/date concept - and spread it around the industry during the early days of COBOL and small system memories.

Paul