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To: Ilaine who wrote (75846)10/8/2004 4:52:31 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Respond to of 793895
 
>>Y2K was no hoax.

OK, not a hoax, but definitely overhyped

Hard to tell. Had it not been hyped, a lot of companies wouldn't have taken the threat seriously enough. Then we would have seen a lot of software crashes in January 2000.

Lots and lots of companies had some piece of mainframe software that dated from the 70s running a basic part of their operation. These "old charlies" were finally examined and/or replaced in the late 90s precisely because of Y2K scare.


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