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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (947)	1/22/1998 4:07:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

NEW YORK (AP) -- So much for the ''year 2000'' glitch that will gum up the world's computers two years from now. The next millennium already has arrived for a small but growing number of frustrated consumers and businesses. ...Moviegoers used to paying with credit cards recently discovered a feature missing from nearly 100 of AMC Theatres' box offices: The ability to accept cards expiring in 2000 and later. ...In upstate New York, Corning Inc.'s computer system for processing supply contracts crashed because the technology couldn't read a couple of zeros in three-year contracts. ...Some insurers refuse to issue policies such as property and casualty longer than one or two years for fear their computers can't process them. etc. cbs.marketwatch.com - Jeff