Originally Posted by
Chumley
Don't underestimate the Y2K issue. Yes there were nutcases who spoke about planes falling out of the sky. But if all those companies hadn't spent all that money getting all those people to rewrite all that programming code you would have seen some nasty situations (think about how eftpos works, or atms, or traffic regulation systems, etc, etc). The fact that there were so few problems just shows the preventative measures were successful.
Now, think about the Y10K problem - much more difficult to solve!
Cheers,
Adam