Y2K will affect everyone Even the smallest company's Y2K problem can send ripples up the supply chain and affect your ability to deliver your products and services. There is a litany of potential Y2K effects. Electronic data interchange fails. ATM machines won't operate. Centenarians are invited to register for kindergarten.
Machines stop because embedded chips show cycle times have been exceeded.
Credit cards expire. Receivables are a 100 years overdue. Three types of failure. The first and most likely problem is that your software will see 00 as 1900 and not 2000. The third is that your computer stops.