Mercury News -- Bracing for the Armageddon of Technology
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[...]
The 31-year-old computer systems administrator at a small university in
Northern Michigan is stockpiling food, water, medicine and other basic
necessities, and readying a family cabin for himself, his wife and his year-old
baby. He plans to take his money out of the banking system by August. And
he is honing his construction, gardening and landscaping skills.
[...]
'About every new customer that comes in here is concerned about Y2K,''
says Ralph Foster, owner of Foster Coin, a precious metals store in Berkeley.
Foster says he senses concern, not panic, among those customers, which in
the last few days ranged from a worker at the Port of Oakland to a
UC-Berkeley scientist to a computer programmer at Lawrence Berkeley Labs.
[...]
''I do not loose sleep over it,'' Huss says. ''But I don't want to rely on
maybes. I am glad I started early. If the bank run starts, I do not want to wait
in line.'' |
