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

To: RH who wrote (2022)	6/21/1998 1:13:00 AM
From: Gary R. Owens	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Agency Waits To Fix Computer Bug MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's Atomic Energy Ministry will wait until 2000 to fix any computer glitches arising from the Millennium Bug, a spokesman said Friday. ''We don't have any problems yet,'' spokesman Vladislav Petrov told The Associated Press. ''We'll deal with the problem in the year 2000.'' The Millennium Bug is a worldwide threat because many computers - originally programmed to recognize only the last two digits of a year - may be unable to distinguish between the years 2000 and 1900 - since their codes represent those years as simply 00. Computer experts warn that on Jan 1, 2000, banking systems may fail, air traffic controls could stop working - and nuclear reactors might melt down if the problem in their computer systems is not fixed. On May 21, Russian Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko ordered the country's computer experts to develop ways to resolve the 2000 problem by the end of this year, but it is commonly acknowledged that Russia is far behind its western counterparts in fixing the glitch. Many experts believe that if major government institutions and large companies haven't started fixing the problem, they're already too late. A recent study revealed that the U.S. Defense Department will complete all its necessary overhauls by 2012 at the pace it's going now. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Well now I'm going to have a little more trouble sleeping... gary dailynews.yahoo.com