Originally Posted by mim

Y2K explanation

Back in the late 1990s the world went into a panic -- the year 2000 was coming up -- the big unknown was that all computers had clocks -- and the dates all started with 19-- not 20-- the world would stop because the computers wouldn't know what to do -- think hospitals with equipment -- Airplane industry -- traffic lights -- and especially banks -- everything was supposed to crash. Companies spent millionsto reprogram their computers. And then New Years eve came and went -- nothing happened -- big letdown for the doomsday guys.

I will admit there was the possibility of a problem -- I was in the medical computer field and if a patient was born before 1900 we had to do some fancy computer stuff to get their birthdate back to 18-- The computers had 19-- built in.

Mim

I'll start a thread about the special Y2K swaps