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Nov 13 4:00 PM EST

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To: Tom Byron who wrote (22825)	11/10/1998 10:24:00 PM
From: John D. McClure	Read Replies (1) of 116759

Snipped from the Van Impe Ministries Site... "A British report this weekend said that computers have already been affected by the date-change problem even before the Y2K computer problem hits. It emphasized that most European nations are have been more concerned about preparing computers for the new euro introduction than making millennium bug fixes. It listed the following major computer problems that have already happened and others: "In Holland, motorists with newly issued bank cards with expiry dates of 00 had them rejected at petrol stations...A Swedish woman received a letter informing her of the various schools on offer when she reached 10. She was, in fact, born in 1890...A tin of corned beef from Marks & Spencer was rejected on the ground that the food was 96 years out of date...A date roll-over check on a power station led to its shut-down within 20 seconds. The fault was traced to a flue stack temperature sensor that was programmed to minimise fluctuations over time, using the date to make calculations...A computer clock set to 2000 at Chrysler Motors in America shut down the security system and refused to let staff out...A sewage treatment plant in America found that in 2000, valve-control systems would have released untreated sewage into the rivers. During a test in an American nuclear power station, the device that controlled the depth of the fuel rod in the core began to oscillate..."" Jed

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