🚀 go-pugleaf

Tony Toews wrote:
> 
> Excuse me bub, but this is the Y2K newsgroup. (Sorry about the cross
> posting but I figure the folks in the other newsgroups gotta realize
> just what kinda errors were made in posting this kinda msg in c.s.y2k)
> c.s.y2k made up of the meanest, baddest and most ornery programmers
> you ever met.  I've got just about 20 years.  Lots of people here got
> 25 or 30 years.

But I still see a lot of people with there heads in the sand.  I learned
of the problem in 1980.  I brought it up at a development meeting and
was ignored.  Of course I was just a junior computer operator mainly
respondible for loading tapes and run print jobs.


A year and a half from 2000 I have gained a lot more knowledge but still
being ignore.  Instead of "you don't what you're talking about" The
answer I get, Oh that has been fixed.  And I know it hasn't even been
touched.  I still get ignore.  It got so frustrating being ignored I
plan to be completely out of computers and out of the country when 2000
hit.  I am learning a skill that doesn't involves computer or
electronics.  I want to be out of the country because I don't want to
get blame for the mess.  Of course at the moment I am still in the
country and still in computer, but I am planning my escape.

> >WIBS Technologies officially  announces that we now have the software
> >available to detect and fix the Millennium compliance problem on most
> >computers, either on a network or a stand alone P.C..  We provide you
> >with the tools to save your business and computers.
> 
> Big hairy f#$@ing deal.  Lots of other software outthere.
> 
> Oh yeah, and what about the software running on the computers, like
> Cobol, Fortran, RPG, Basic?  Your software fix that up too?
> 
> I could care less about PC's running Word, Excel, Power Point and
> Solitare.

Well I care!  Them jobs pay good money and is easy work.  If a software
isn't year compliance, you can replace it a lot easier then mainframe
> 
> Whoa, whats this?? "most computers"  Yo, bub, this gonna fix the Unix
> machine at my credit union, IBM mainframe at my bank, the GM assembly
> line, the Chysler building security system which locks up at midnight
> 2000/1/1, the FAA tube based computers still around from the 50's and
> 60's?

No,  so make your escape plans now!