4 Jan
1999
4 Jan
'99
11:12 a.m.
On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Chuck McManis wrote:
I attended a talk by a Y2K consultant (Bruce Webster),
and what he had to
say was pretty interesting. Most of "our" (ie classic) computers are pretty
much invulnerable to the bug, but they aren't invulnerable to lawyers. When
asked if planes would fall out of the sky on 1/1/00 his answer? "Of course
not, there won't be any passenger planes FLYING on 1/1/00." His reasoning
is as follows:
Shakespeare was right!!!
- don
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