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You want a Y2K crash? FINE! Here's a poorly computer

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Re: Same as Audits

Small Business Administration? Yes, they were probably using PCs.

The mainframe and mini systems I worked on all certainly had Y2K compliance problems, to begin with, because they only used 2 digit dates in COBOL. They were either updated to 4 digits or used the sliding window technique. But there were definitely problems.

On the other hand, the Mac and PC systems I worked on were generally fine, because they used floats to store dates, which meant that their fail date was another 36 years in the future, when we put Y2K to bed...

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