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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (4505)	3/11/1999 3:26:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (2) of 9818

ACCORDING TO CHEEKY KID (*The voice of reason???) According to Peter de Jager, Jan 01, 1999 was the date problems would start show up. NOTHING of importance happened. FROM C.K. HOUSTON (Doom & Gloomer - LOL) LIST OF Y2K FAILURES WHICH HAVE ALREADY OCCURRED* greenspun.com With documentation of sources - 27 pages - Embedded Systems within an IV drip unit Shut down at 98-99 rollover - Quicken'99 fails with a "divide by zero" message when 1999 transaction recorded in Auto category and "Home and Car Center" is opened. - Security Systems locked out workers - NY auto sticker shock - Australian hospitals - Taxis bugged by Y2K - Stockholm Sweden's Arlanda airport - Consumer - Prescriptions/Insurance - Generator temperature control system at a power plant in the United Kingdom - ALMOST a third of computer-related equipment in South Australian hospitals, including cardiac monitors & drug distribution systems failed Y2K testing. - U.S. Army's Materiel Command, tested its PBX telephone systems for 2000 transition. Ran fine for three days after turn of year, until accumulated date errors shut down the whole network. - Unum Life Insurance Co. deleted hundreds of records from a financial reporting database after one of the company's computers mistook "00" for 1900. - Amway Corp. had a string of chemicals rejected by the network because the expiration dates seemed to be in the year 1900. - Canadian municipality tested water system for Y2K and found a subsystem started dumping in too many chemicals MANY MORE EXAMPLES OF ACTUAL FAILURES (WITH SOURCES) ================================================================ *<NOTHING of importance happened.> CHEEKY KID* Cheryl

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