"George Shirley" wrote

I was hired as a consultant by a couple of large hydrocarbon processing
plants in the area just for Y2K. My job was to coordinate operations when
all the computer went belly up and they had to run them manually. Wasn't
because I was a good industrial safety professional, was because I used to
run plants by hand back in the day, 1961 to 1976.

I laughed all the way to the bank. Their own computer professionals were
telling them it wasn't necessary that the changes had been made to the
programming. A great many chemical and petroleum engineers then were
computer illiterates.

I'm happy you made out like a bandit, good for you. Made them feel
more secure and you made a chunk of change. What's not to like?

nancy