MRG
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I was very busy at my company handling Y2K issues. I oversaw my division's end-user programs and had to make a lot of small changes to them. With the programs I wrote in the mid-1990s, I kept in mind Y2K so the changes were small, too. Some programs were tougher to fix. And our systems analysts were creating new systems to replace the ones written in the 1970s and 1980s. I was the point person in my division in the testing of them. Kept me busy for a good year.
We were a service provider. In those days the project management hours were not perfect. They estimated we spent 100 person years in development and testing. I believe the estimate was light.
Only time in my career I was compensated to develop code on the weekends. I was one of a few assembler developers who was provided the opportunity. It was piece work, upgrade this program for $1000 kind of thing.
Oddly after working 60 hours during the week and another 20 on the weekend; it was not much fun the following Monday. After three months I told them no more; sometimes there's not enough money in the world for more time!