The pamphlet looks fascinating!

I spent most of my work hours from 1996 to 2000 in the testing department for a large multi-national financial firm. They started planning for the problem in 1995 and spent five years converting an old mainframe system to an Oracle database array. Hell of a lot of work, with good results from same — better database, better systems and no problems on Jan 1, 2000.

I never expected a total apocalypse from Y2K but there would have been a whole lot more frustrating glitches if there hadn’t been so much work invested in the lead-up. Panic wasn’t warranted, preparation was.

I will note, said multi-national company DID wait till 2005 to send my job to India…