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

To: Ken Salaets who wrote (2664)	10/7/1998 1:10:00 PM
From: flatsville	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Ken--I think I found the incident I was thinking of. At midnight January 1, 1997 a process control computer failure at the Tawai Point Aluminum Smelter in Southland NZ crashed due to the inability to account for the 1996 leap year problem. Two hours later Comalco's Bell Bay smelter in Tazmania shut down for the same problem. Repair bill $570,000. If I recall correctly the NZ plant warned the Tazmania plant in advance. Comalco was powerless to stop the failure at Bell Bay, but did manage to limit the damage. It is not a y2k incident but is often used to illustrate the damage a date problem can cause. Found it among others on Cassandra site. millennia-bcs.com After choosing frames or no frames click on Y2K Occurences "flatsville"