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Politics : Ask Michael Burke

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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (72346)12/27/1999 10:43:00 AM
From: Don Lloyd  Read Replies (1) of 132070
 
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telegraph.co.uk

"THE race to ensure that information technology can survive the Millennium Bug has produced an unexpected glitch - now computers cannot recognise the year 1900...

...However, Action 2000, the organisation set up to make sure that computers were being updated for the new century, admitted a number of councils and firms had experienced the 1900 problem. In one case logged by Action 2000, a 102-year-old woman was invited to join a local nursery school because a local authority computer was baffled by a 19th-century birthdate..."

Regards, Don
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