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DAMMIT NPR. I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded. Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.

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People feared the computer glitch would mean "the end of the world as we know it." Thankfully, Y2K didn't live up to the hype after years and billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparation.

I was hired by IBM in 1987 to introduce virtualization to banks in the UK and some in France and Germany so they could start building Y2K testing systems and put the clocks forward on giant mainframe systems. Everyday was 1999 for 12 years.

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