Klarinet Archive - Posting 001054.txt from 1998/03

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: The year 2000 problem
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 23:23:14 -0500

At 07:21 PM 3/19/98, you wrote:
>Jacqueline Eastwood wrote:
>
>>On the bright side, folks, I know of one computer system that's already
>>been upgraded to be 2000-compatible: the payroll system here at the
>>University! So at least some of us will be getting paid........
>
>But how about the system at the bank?

See, that is the problem in a nutshell: YOU can be ready, Company Z can be
ready, even Morgan Stanley (my other address I subscribe from) can be
ready...but if everyone of importance is not...then things are still going
to be badly hosed. And of course, the ever-popular US Gub'mint is leading
the retrograde march into the 14th century.....

Ken W.

"The East River. But it was not a river at all. Merely a column of water
connecting the upper harbor to the Sound. Yet everyone called it a river.
They chose not to think about it. They clung to the surface of things."
--Peter Quinn, "Banished Children of Eve"
Ken Wolman kwolman@-----.com/SoHo/Gallery/1649