Brings back memories (Score 1)

That reminded me of 2 things:

1. I had COBOL in college, and our instructor told us that if we really wanted job security until 2000, we should look into the Year 2000 coding issue. That was a problem that is very big, and not a lot of companies have addressed it yet. When they do, they are going to need a LOT of COBOL programmers. I became a hardware weenie instead. ;)
2. I run sound in my spare time, as does a good friend of mine who is a consultant. We were asked to run sound for a conference on Y2K survival. It turned out to be a gloom-and-doom bit with all the things that could go wrong, and here is how you get prepared. We sat in the sound booth quietly laughing our heads off at some of the things that were predicted. "The Russians have very old chips in their missle control systems, and they will launch by accident because of the date change! All your stop lights will quit working!" so on and so forth. We knew the seriousness of the situation, but also knew the level of changes that were being made.