Micro Focus, Revolve 2000 Computer Dongle
date: label: Date made
content: 1996
name: label: maker
content: Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: This dongle is one of twenty Guardian purchased to track the number of lines of code analyzed.
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content: References:
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content: Computerworld, September 12, 1994, pg 67.
label: Description
content: Computerworld, November 11, 1996, pg 11 (advertisement).
label: Description
content: InfoWorld, January 15, 1996, pg. 5 (advertisement).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Y2K
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
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content: Y2K
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.3020.04
label: catalog number
content: 2004.3020.04
label: nonaccession number
content: 2004.3020
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dongle
label: Object Name
content: microcomputer component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: 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