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To: Cynic 2005 who wrote (81519)	12/29/1999 1:22:00 PM
From: re3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86076

happy days in metal land... finance.yahoo.com^TMM&d=t

To: Cynic 2005 who wrote (81519)	12/29/1999 1:47:00 PM
From: Ken98	Respond to of 86076

Mohan, if the big UK credit card companies STILL can't get it right what are the odds that the various gov't entities have gotten it 99.9% fixed like our fearless leader says? <<Millions faced difficulties as shops reopened after the Christmas break as the credit-card machines failed to execute transactions which required recognition of the year 2000. The problems were caused by a software glitch in swipe machines produced by electronics giant Racal and distributed through the high-street bank HSBC. Customers throughout Britain were forced to queue to make payments as staff brought out old-fashioned manual machines, which produce a carbon copy of the transaction, rather than relying on electronic communication with a central database.>> thisislondon.com As someone said, at what point does the cumulative effect of these "rather amusing" little "glitches" not affecting "mission critical systems" become a serious problem in and of itself?

To: Cynic 2005 who wrote (81519)	12/29/1999 1:57:00 PM
From: NickSE	Respond to of 86076

I could be completely wrong on this, but I think our very own Uncle Al was involved in COBOL programming. He's probably the one who engineered this whole Y2K bug thing with his bad coding and now we're all gonna pay for it just like we're gonna suffer for his printing extravaganza. ...I just talked to a friend who did a lot of cobol programming in the 80s Nick ...posting from his Y2K love shack, errr, I mean command bunker

To: Cynic 2005 who wrote (81519)	12/29/1999 2:25:00 PM
From: IceShark	Respond to of 86076

Basically he is of the opinion that most mission critical embedded systems don't need a date transaction. However, he acknowledged that he doesn't know much about them. Give me his name and address so I can send him my hardware that will die. -g- Well, my coffee machine (pot on stove) should work if the gas line doesn't drop and freeze 10 million people (there is always the fireplace) and my 1970 era truck has no 'puter and 50 gallons of gas in it. Along with a few extra boxes of ammo, I think I'm set. -g-