On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 00:14:04 -0400, Francois Labreque wrote:

>> The predicted Y2K computing technology disaster is what failed to
>> happen.  Planes failed to fall from the sky, the power grid failed to
>> fail, the phones kept working.
>>
>>
> Mostly because most companies took it seriously enough that they fixed
> the problems that could have happened.
> 
> some small businesses did have problems, for example:

Sure, there were some relatively minor issues.

There were predictions (whether or not they were /serious/ predictions is 
certainly debatable) of massive outages and a return to the dark ages or 
the stone ages.

But I never took those very seriously myself.  But people who were less 
well-informed (and not working in the tech industry) certainly did think 
things would be much worse than they were.

My coauthor and I joked about getting into the long-haul trucking 
business if everything croaked.  Of course, we knew it was highly 
unlikely (and if it happened the way the doomsayers were, long-haul 
trucking would've have been a particularly good business because there 
are a lot of computers involved in that business - not just to keep the 
trucks running, either, but for the whole supply chain management side of 
things.)

Jim

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