re: #86 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

apples and oranges, or rather Apples and PCs

Yeah, what prevented Y2K was…well…bringing attention to Y2K. We’re sort of expected to just take it on faith that the public and private agencies who spent billions patching, upgrading, or outright replacing legacy computer systems were not in any real danger from Y2K because they said so.