A Tale of Hype, Herculean Efforts, and Successful Outcomes (in the main) INTRODUCTION As the clock ticked closer to midnight on December 31, 1999, the world braced itself for a technological apocalypse known as the Millennium Bug, or Y2K. This looming threat was predicted to disrupt computer systems worldwide, leading to catastrophic failures in everything […]
Blood, Sweat and Years. The Y2K remembered It only seems a few years ago when the world was awash with how the all the IT systems, PC’s and Game Consoles were all going to stop on the 1st of January 2000. Companies were expecting to spend millions on testing and fixing their systems, Government were […]
Looking Back At The Y2K Bug by Paul Lynham FIAP A quarter of a century ago, projects to address the problems of software that used two-digit years were well on their way to completion. This was a problem that I also tackled in my own agricultural software which I had developed in the 1980’s. It […]
Year 2000 Bug – PC Issues Explained Chris Myers wrote this document in 1997 to explain the issues, so that managers and staff could understand just the technical issues that might occur with the existing computer hardware. The motherboard of a PC has a clock in the CMOS called a real time clock (RTC). This […]
