The year 2000 problem could have been completely prevented had some
early people envisioned the degree to which the microprocessor would
change our lives. Surely, no one would have thought that in the early
days of ENIAC that everything from your alarm clock to your car would be
computerized. Even the IT managers of the 80's could not be blamed: The
disk space savings from dropping the two digits of the date over 100
Million Records would represent almost 200 Megabytes! Space requirements
aside, overhead on search times and disk loading/access are also added.
Surely one could have designed a system whereby the program would be
aware of the century, regardless of the data records used. Hindsight is
always 20/20 however, and this was almost never the case.
Regardless where you address the problem from, the year 2000 problem is
a huge, expensive and international one. In many cases it is a problem
lined with doubt as to it's effects. This paper will analyze the various......
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