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To: coug who wrote (71)	12/29/1999 11:26:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 286

Check out what's been going on in the U.K. At the height of the holiday season ... credit card swipe machines aren't working! Credit card swipe machines in shops are set to keep crashing until January 1, bank chiefs have said. Shoppers face difficulties paying for goods and services at the height of sales fever because a version of the millennium bug has struck early. A software problem with the credit card terminals means they have been refusing to allow transactions from credit cards and debit cards - such as Visa, Mastercard and Switch to go through. The glitch has left retailers frantically trying to put transactions through on old-fashioned paper slips. A spokeswoman for HSBC, the high street bank which has issued 10,000 swipe machines to retailers, said: "The fault has been caused by terminals not being able to recognise January 1. It will be completely cleared by January 1." ... [LOL] The HSBC spokeswoman said the fault "might be an end of year problem" rather than the infamous millennium bug, which is specific to January 1 in the year 2000". itn.co.uk Cheryl

To: coug who wrote (71)	12/29/1999 11:36:00 AM
From: Cruiser	Respond to of 286

While I await a response to my technical query, I find this site facinating. I think it is a great place to come to hear from all the paranoid crackpots out there blaming every technology related problem on the Y2K bug ... quite amusing. Although I expect the number of "reports" to increase significantly after the 31st they will largely be misassociations with otherwise normal technical problems. I, for one, have not and will not take any precautions for the Y2K bug. Cruiser

To: coug who wrote (71)	12/29/1999 12:00:00 PM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 286

Actually .. if it was gonna hit you .. it's probably better that it hit before 1/1 .. They told you that it'd take a couple of days to fix it .. imagine what it would be the day after.. just another bug in an overloaded system ..