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To: Investor2 who wrote (11110)1/13/2000 2:47:00 PM
From: Wally Mastroly  Respond to of 15132
 
..and on the Y2K front...Satellites on the blink for days:


Y2K software glitch garbled data sent from U.S.
orbiters

By John Diamond
Washington Bureau
January 13, 2000

WASHINGTON -- The
nation's image-collecting
spy satellites were all but
blinded by a Y2K
computer bug for nearly
three days, an outage far
more substantial than the
Pentagon initially reported,
according to
knowledgeable government
officials.

chicagotribune.com

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Main link to the online newspaper:

chicagotribune.com



To: Investor2 who wrote (11110)1/13/2000 11:01:00 PM
From: Ken Brown  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 15132
 
Hi, I2,

My suggestion addressed electronic delivery of MT. I don't see that it would be an answer for those without computers. The only hope for those poor souls would be a service such as Fedex or Express Mail. Unlikely, IMO, that that will ever happen.

Ken



To: Investor2 who wrote (11110)1/17/2000 12:20:00 PM
From: Wally Mastroly  Respond to of 15132
 
A suggestion on "fair access to MT subscribers 'who don't do computers' ":

bobbrinker.com