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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BM who wrote (8555)	12/28/1997 11:06:00 AM
From: jgibbs	Respond to of 13949

A couple of paragraphs from today's London Sunday Times. The rest of the story is at the URL. Click on Business, scroll down. "TONY BLAIR will launch a high-profile campaign in the new year to raise awareness of the millennium computer "bug" that will hit the world in two years' time. The prime minister will make it clear to his European partners that the bug could be catastrophic if businesses are not made aware of its seriousness. His warning is expected as Britain takes over the presidency of the European commission on Thursday." sunday-times.co.uk

To: BM who wrote (8555)	12/28/1997 9:21:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

BM - P.S. - given the url, I wonder if the Citizen will have a Y2K bug of its own re:http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/971227/1491396.html Possibly. If this were an filing system where an automated process expected to find items at the bottom of a list.. 000101 <-- at top, rather than bottom of list . . 991230 991231 Would clearly confuse things. A human could potentially figure this out very easily. It's when highly automated processes expect things to be arranged in a certain order, that leads to potentially much confusion with Y2K issues... suddenly data just seems to disappear (when all along it's just sitting at the wrong end of the list, where a machine is simply too stupid to look). - David