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   -=> Jas Hud wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-   
      
    JH> i heard talk of y2k cobol armageddon but then i was unsure if that ever   
    JH> came into fruition.  my friends in IT never brought it up.  i know on   
    JH> the news they mentioned hiring cobol programmers for short contracts. i   
    JH> am not sure how that panned out.   
      
    It didn't, because IT departments spent billions updating code, in   
    many cases bringing people out of retirement for a nice consulting   
    fee.   
      
    I was lucky; I worked in telecom, and most telecom hardware had been   
    updated when they updated to the North American Numbering Plan.   
      
    When area codes were first implemented, they had a 0 or a 1 as the   
    middle digit as part of the logic for the phone company's systems to   
    determine if a call was local or long distance. As telephone usage   
    grew, they began to run out of usable area codes when trying to   
    overlay a code over a busy area, and had to change all sorts of code   
    to support this in the early 1990s.   
      
    By the time Y2K cam around, we were all set.   
      
    More phone trivia, area codes were designed so that the most populous   
    areas had the lowest numbers, because they were dialed on a rotary   
    phone and would be dialed more often. Compare New York (212), Los   
    Angeles (213), Hawaii (808) and Alaska (907).   
      
      
      
      
      
    KW>  Some people don't change. I've seen people that worked swing shifts   
    KW>  swapping tapes, printing out reports and running through maintenance   
    KW>  checklists, right up until they unplugged the last AS/400 and laid   
    KW>  them off. Didn't know what hit them.   
    KW>   
      
      
    JH> man i miss as400. i could do so much with it. we switched to jdedwards   
    JH> at my job and had a rough time in transition.   
      
    JH> Companies just have stupid people that dont take accountability. they   
    JH> let things fall apart.  some people wouldn't even  pull the fire alarm   
    JH> if the place was on fire.   
      
    JH> ... Carefull, we might be landing on your street   
      
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