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Y2K damage reports

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Emcee: Gersh Avery	Type: Unmoderated

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My plans for New Years eve this year are to be online monitoring damage reports. I want to have a clear idea of just how much damage has and is being done by the Y2K bug and the public response to it.

If anybody out there hears of a nuke plant going critical or a car that won't start please post a link here.

One note that I just have to put out there .. Many large organizations have done their preparations by replacing old computers with new ones and declared themselves to be ready. When they did, the transferred all of the old software from the old computers to the new ones. They are toast. Accounts payable, accounts receivable, employee and client records will probably be a hopeless mess. Perhaps not at the first tick of the clock after midnight, but when the old software tries to update the records .. I would hope that the Credit Bureaus are ready to screen out bad credit reports for folks with bills overdue by 100 years.

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286	ha, too funny!	stockpicker23	-	5/12/2007
285	Y2K bug In a curious throwback to the fears about Y2K, the space agency wanted	sammy™ -_-	-	12/30/2006
284	Wow, Y2Kay was so bad that we are still unable to get reliable damage reports. T	Tom C	-	12/2/2006
283	It looks like there were more problems going from 2000 to 2001 then from 1999 to	Jim	-	1/7/2001
282	Y2K Computer Glitch Hits 7-Eleven washingtonpost.com	Snowshoe	-	1/4/2001
281	The NASDAQ ought to win the award for being the No. 1 victim of y2k damage, in t	WTMHouston	-	1/2/2001
280	Thanks! I wasn't expecting to see <i>any</i> reports like this!	Gersh Avery	-	1/1/2001
279	Y2K Bug Belatedly Hits Norway Trains washingtonpost.com LOL, I suppose we'	Snowshoe	-	1/1/2001
278	The sky still seems to be falling <g>	Gersh Avery	-	10/8/2000
277	apparently companies bought computers before 1/1/2000 (I thought they were waiti	hdl	-	7/24/2000
276	re: not too much went bad, the bubble I expected a "bump in the road"	Bill Ounce	-	2/7/2000
275	Well said and, unfortunately for many, too true.	anne_r	-	2/6/2000
274	This Y2K problem will not go away! Everyday, I wake up and my clock shows the	Jim	-	2/6/2000
273	Gersh, I haven't followed your posts closely, but were you not one of the	Phil(bullrider)	-	2/6/2000
272	Thanks doug .. food for thought: #reply-12790757	Gersh Avery	-	2/6/2000
271	I agree completely. best, doug	dclapp	-	2/6/2000
270	I'd like to thank every one that posted here over the new year. As we have	Gersh Avery	-	2/6/2000
269	<We think it's finally fixed now.> Those problems won't leave an	Dug	-	1/25/2000
268	Yikes! My shop got hit pretty hard over the weekend by some nasty Y2K problems	Snowshoe	-	1/19/2000
267	Yep .. some AOL puts just might have been a good thing<g>	Gersh Avery	-	1/11/2000
266	Hey Greg, me still thinks that @ least 6 months behind the curve is good but no	Dug	-	1/7/2000
265	Y2K Glitch Causes Double Recording On Some Credit-Card Purchases Dug, here'	Snowshoe	-	1/7/2000
264	CABLE MODEM <I installed a cable modem a few weeks ago and I love it. The f	Dug	-	1/5/2000
263	Y2k error on YHOO QUOTES!!!! finance.yahoo.com unbelievable....the chart avera	posthumousone	-	1/4/2000
262	This article has some background on Y2K web bugs. It turns out that what you s	Snowshoe	-	1/4/2000

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