RE: Y2K Lawsuit

[Krys Theodore <ktheodore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In 1989 I started on the AS/400, developing a new system for a major 
company.  At that time the project manager contacted IBM to find out how 
they planned on handling the Y2K coding.  They told us that the standard 
was to be a single digit century code. (0 for 19xx - twentieth century, 1 
for 20xx - twenty-first century).  Several years later they changed their 
minds and went with the four digit year.  In some cases you tried to use 
standards and were crossed up by IBM.

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From:   boothm@ibm.net[SMTP:boothm@ibm.net]
Reply To:       MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Sent:   Wednesday, December 23, 1998 11:16 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: Y2K Lawsuit

1993?  How much was dasd back then?  I clearly remember discussions on the 
cost of dasd to store the "19" and nearly everyone agreeing that when it 
came to adding in a gazzillion 19s the choice was "save the money".


In <Pine.SV4.3.96.981223203545.20383A-100000@saltmine.radix.net>, on 
12/23/98
   at 08:38 PM, Don <dr2@cssas400.com> said:

>> HOPEFULLY any judge will see that these people made the DUMB decision to 
buy a
>> release and never move forward...

>That will depend...especially on how it was presented to the prospective
>client...

>AND, we actually have seen source code with comments from the original
>vendor along with code documenting where date routines are to be not
>executed because they knew in 1993 that their code wasn't going to work
>after 1999...THAT is defecive code...and should get a vendor zapped!


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