Year 2000 Fiction, Fantasy, and Fact
"The Mad Scramble for the Elusive Silver Bullet . . . and the Clock Ticks Away."
Wayne Anderson
November 7, 1996
The year 2000 is practically around the corner, promising a new era of
greatness and wonder . . . as long as you don't own a computer or work with one.
The year 2000 is bringing a Pandora's Box of gifts to the computer world, and
the latch is slowly coming undone.
The year 2000 bug is not really a "bug" or "virus," but is more a computer
industry mistake. Many of the PC's, mainframes, and software out there are not
designed or programmed to compute a future year ending in double zeros. This
is going to be a costly "fix" for the industry to absorb. In fact, Mike Elgan
who is the editor of Windows Magazine, says " . . . the problem could cost
businesses a total of $600 billion to remedy." (p. 1) The fallacy that
mainframes were the only machines to be affected was short lived as industry
realized that 60 to 80 million......
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