[Biggles]

Although it seems like yesterday when it happened, anyone have memories, good or bad, of the infamous Millenium Bug? We had panic going on in the extreme among the upper management and of course the "engineers" were left to sort it out by predicting worse case scenarios and planning how to deal with them. Emergency services control rooms and IT systems supporting them were the main worry, but it even filtered down to suspicions of even domestic appliances and vehicles playing up at the critical hour. Every engineer was forced to be on call for the event, so I, like many others, spent the early hours of the New Year babysitting in a control room in Newcastle. The firework display was good, and I was paid well, and thankfully we didn't have to revert to "plan B" because everything just ran as it had done for many years before. Happy days.
Alan.