Marine Midland Bank

[dsd...@tiac.net]

From its "What is the Millenium Bug?" pamhplet, generally black, with a
picture of a bug on it.

"Looking ahead to the Year 2000 and what it means to you"

"...every computer system and process must be examined, and every program
using the date dependency must be amended or replaced before we reach Year
2000. When you consider that many things which we take for granted rely on
computers to run properly-from office elevators to home security systems,
business and personal computers, and even traffic lights-it's clear that
the challenge is far-reaching."

"We will be ready for the Year 2000 date change by December 31,
1998-allowing for afull year to test our systems."

Somehow, I am less comforted. Before, I was seeing it in this newsgroup,
and of course everywhere on the internet, and in some papers.

But, you know, when you see it in a Marine Midland Bank pamphlet, right
next to "Choosing the Right Mortgage", it sort of gets to you.

[Steve Dover]

dsd...@tiac.net wrote:
>
> From its "What is the Millenium Bug?" pamhplet, generally black, with a
> picture of a bug on it.
>

Black? A friend of mine just recently mentioned that many, many
movies set in the future are all dark/black. Coincidence?

> "Looking ahead to the Year 2000 and what it means to you"
>
> "...every computer system and process must be examined, and every program
> using the date dependency must be amended or replaced before we reach Year
> 2000. When you consider that many things which we take for granted rely on
> computers to run properly-from office elevators to home security systems,
> business and personal computers, and even traffic lights-it's clear that
> the challenge is far-reaching."
>

Yup.

> "We will be ready for the Year 2000 date change by December 31,

> 1998-allowing for a full year to test our systems."
>
Some times I'd rather hear a company say that they have allowed
say 10 months for testing. This exactly 1 year doesn't cut it.
Especially the banks.

> Somehow, I am less comforted. Before, I was seeing it in this newsgroup,
> and of course everywhere on the internet, and in some papers.
>
> But, you know, when you see it in a Marine Midland Bank pamphlet, right
> next to "Choosing the Right Mortgage", it sort of gets to you.

What, high bandwidth paper and not enough noise?
Sounds like the marketing people there are running the show.
You know, get a mortgage from us, we will be around.
Don't bet on it.

--
Are you ready for year MM?
The Mother of all Messes.
547 Days to go before 'Ignorance is bliss' is obsolete.
news:comp.software.year-2000 Come for the signal, stay for the noise.

[Richard Church]

On Thu, 02 Jul 1998 15:19:35 -0500, Steve Dover <s...@strata-group.Xcom> wrote:

>
>> "We will be ready for the Year 2000 date change by December 31,
>> 1998-allowing for a full year to test our systems."
>>
>Some times I'd rather hear a company say that they have allowed
>say 10 months for testing. This exactly 1 year doesn't cut it.
>Especially the banks.
>

Yeah, that canned response doesn't reassure me either. But I disagree with your
10 month figure. I'd rather hear them say 18 months for testing.

Richard Church
webm...@lucidimages.com

It's the Year 2000.
Do you know where your government is?
http://www.lucidimages.com/y2k/