Re: Y2K Lawsuit

1993?  How much was dasd back then?  I clearly remember discussions on the cost 
of dasd to store the "19" and nearly everyone agreeing that when it came to 
adding in a gazzillion 19s the choice was "save the money".


In <Pine.SV4.3.96.981223203545.20383A-100000@saltmine.radix.net>, on 12/23/98 
   at 08:38 PM, Don <dr2@cssas400.com> said:

>> HOPEFULLY any judge will see that these people made the DUMB decision to buy 
>a
>> release and never move forward...

>That will depend...especially on how it was presented to the prospective
>client...

>AND, we actually have seen source code with comments from the original
>vendor along with code documenting where date routines are to be not
>executed because they knew in 1993 that their code wasn't going to work
>after 1999...THAT is defecive code...and should get a vendor zapped!


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