On 18/5/20 9:48 am, [email protected] wrote:
Sorry this isn't as pretty as the original I received ...
Appropriate it is in plain, readable, text:
From: "Vision Australia Digital Access"
... Y2K ... was it all just a hoax? ...
No. In 1987 it looked like there would not be a problem as by 1999
everyone would have switched to new languages which supported four digit
dates, such as Ada: "A Date with Ada in the year 2000" (Computerworld, 6
November 1987) Anyone find it on-line?
Everyone did not switch to Ada, so in 1997 the Australian Computer
Society suggested critical systems be checked in a timely fashion:
https://web.archive.org/web/19991013043745/http://www.acs.org.au/news/y2k.htm
That didn't happen either, so from late 1998 to mid 1999, I helped spent
$255M checking and replacing stuff at the Defence Y2K Project Office.
https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22media%2Fpressrel%2FS6D06%22;src1=sm1
We did not find many critical Y2K bugs, but we found a lot of flaky
code, and obsolete hardware, which needed replacing. The spring cleaning
of Defence's IT systems came in handy when Australia lead an
international force into East Timor.
... Sydney Olympic Games ... Mr Bruce Maguire ... wanted to purchase
tickets ...
After finishing at Defence in 1999, I was contacted by Mr Maguire's
lawyers and asked to be an expert witness in the SOCOG case. They were
having difficulty finding a real expert, so I was the best they could
do. Later the Beijing Olympics flew me over to explain what went wrong
in Sydney: http://www.tomw.net.au/2003/bws.html
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