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To: John Hunt who wrote (24688)	12/22/1998 6:10:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) of 116955

Airports try to head off millennium bug specter dailynews.yahoo.com << The British airport operator BAA Plc recently did some experiments to learn how the 2000 computer bug might strike. One involved turning the clock forward and putting a baggage-handling system to work. The result? ''It failed to recognize the bags and sent all the bags down the 'mis-sort' chute,'' said Jim Brophy, BAA's Year 2000 program director. In other experiments, smart cards used to control airport access did not work with 21st century dates and a control board failed to recognize fire alarm signals, Brophy told reporters. -- cont'd -- >> Airport glitches ... not the planes or the tower.

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