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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (72694)	1/2/2000 6:31:00 AM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 132070

<<> I have been seeing a lot of these slot machines that have multi million $ payoffs, but when somebody hits them, the casinos claim something was wrong with the computer program so they won't pay off.>> That happened at the new Harrah's casino in New Orleans just a few days after they opened. What a scam! I guess they knew the machine malfunctioned because it was never supposed to pay out.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (72694)	1/2/2000 10:24:00 AM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Mike, >>I still withhold judgement on Y2K. Business doesn't reopen until Monday. My guess is it isn't serious, but it is not a total non-event.<< Absolutely correct. What we've seen so far was the easy part. Virtually every system in my shop and others were already brought up successfully with a 2000 date in a testing environment. Any problems were fixed. The problems will occur in the processing of transactions, data, reports etc... Monday night is probably even more of an issue than tomorrow morning. Major problems (if there are any) will be reveled with "abends". Programmers will be available to work on them and correct them ASAP. There could be serious delays though. Thing likes sort sequence problems, dropped transactions, invalid file formats between customers, faulty calculations etc... won't be known until a full batch cycle has been run. Similar problems may occur during weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual processing because many systems have separate streams for those functions. It is much more likely that this sort of stuff has been missed than what we've seen so far. I found a bug 2 weeks ago that would have wiped out an entire database. (recoverable of course) Just suppose I had gone to Belmont that day. :-) Wayne