Object Details
- Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
- Description
- Leading up to the new millennium, many computer companies offered products or services to assist with transitioning computer systems to the year 2000. For example, Micro Focus sold Revolve 2000 that would identify lines of code that could potentially be affected by the change to year 2000. At Guardian Life Insurance the Y2K project directors negotiated a ten-cent cost per line contract with Micro (IBM was offering the same service for $1.25 per line.) Nearly twenty million (20,000,000) lines of code were analyzed by the end of the project. Of that number, less than one percent needed to be updated.
- This dongle is one of twenty Guardian purchased to track the number of lines of code analyzed.
- References:
- Computerworld, September 12, 1994, pg 67.
- Computerworld, November 11, 1996, pg 11 (advertisement).
- InfoWorld, January 15, 1996, pg. 5 (advertisement).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1996
- ID Number
- 2004.3020.04
- catalog number
- 2004.3020.04
- nonaccession number
- 2004.3020
- Object Name
- Dongle
- microcomputer component
- Measurements
- overall: 1.6 cm x 5.6 cm x 4.5 cm; 5/8 in x 2 7/32 in x 1 25/32 in
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Computers & Business Machines
- Y2K
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Y2K
- Record ID
- nmah_1271054
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-6481-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
