The solution to running out of phone numbers, SSN's etc? Transcendental
phone numbers! :-)

John Zoltak
North American Mfg Co

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Gordon [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, October 26, 1998 9:20 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: [HP3000-L] All the problems (was: Y2K problem)
>
> This SSN situation is news to me.  Are they talking about expanding
> it?  I
> just read an article in CIO that they are already starting to use a
> Zip+4+2
> type zip code where the last two are bar coded.  Are they talking
> about
> expanding the phone numbers as well?  I know we are burning through
> area
> codes like flash paper in California, but I hadn't heard of any
> particular
> plans at this point.
>
> Thanks,
> Shawn
>
>
>
>
>
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> toback2 <[log in to unmask]> on 10/23/98 05:59:29 PM
>
> Please respond to toback2 <[log in to unmask]>
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> To:   [log in to unmask]
> cc:    (bcc: Shawn Gordon/IS/FHM/FHS)
> Subject:  Re: All the problems (was:  Y2K problem)
>
>
>
>
> Gavin Scott writes:
>
> >One of the hot questions is what will happen to IS budgets after the
> year
> >2000.  Will there be more Y2K work to do?  Will all the Y2K
> programmers
> >get laid off?  Will budgets go down because the work is over?  Will
> budgets
> >stay the same or even go up due to the backlog of projects that got
> >postponed for the last three years because of Y2K?  Will everyone
> simply
> >move on to the next "Y2K" kind of problem (euro, SSN, etc.)?
>
> Most Y2K conversions will include re-engineering to allow more
> flexibility in the future, so that changes to the SSN, phone number
> format, Dow Jones range and so on require a couple of twiddles in a
> table
> somewhere, plus some report prettification.
>
> Right?
>
> -- Bruce
>
>
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