Blast from the past: The fourth system in the Station Computing programme was USAS, for supply accounting. I was the manager for USAS installation for a couple years, and then PM for SARO2 at Harrogate, then selling BAEMMA & RAMS, then LITS, next at Rolls-Royce. RAFSEE was a constant co-conspirator in those days. I enjoyed my time in Maastricht too. The new cable trays in the huts at Harrogate had to do zig zags under the corridor ceiling.

"the "millennium bug" was a real bug. The fact that it didn't result in disaster was because an awful lot of well meaning (or well paid) people did a lot of work to fix it."

and it DID affect some major companies - but they (very wisely) kept their mouths firmly shut and just fixed it