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Re: No Y2k Bug

But there was a Y2k Disaster! in Delaware -

800 slot machines stopped working!!!  Oh, the horror!

They interpreted a date from a central computer as 1900 instead of 2000.

-- 
Bob Scheurle                      | "I hate money, landlords and banks.
scheurle@z-eclipse-z.net          |  They're hoarding millions,
rscheurl@z-avionics-z.itt.com     |  while we get the scraps."
http://www.eclipse.net/~scheurle  |  -- Karen Mantler (and her cat Arnold)