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To: Ken who wrote (6997)	7/23/1999 1:47:00 PM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) of 9818

Europe Rides Bumpy Computer Road to Year 2000 << Then came the test at the Hanover city power company, organized by a confident data processing manager in the spirit of public education, with local media invited to watch. At first, everything seemed fine. But within a few minutes after "midnight," the computer began spewing out thousands of error messages. Then it froze up entirely, and the monitors went blank. Hanover did not go dark. But for a few minutes, it was impossible to monitor the electric grid or to trace equipment breakdowns. It took seven months to eradicate all the problems. "I really thought it would be fine," said Juergen Rehmer, the blue-jeans-clad manager who arranged the event. "We had made a lot of changes already, and I was quite certain that a full-system test wouldn't present any great difficulty." >> nytimes.com

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