[LawSource] INFO/NYT: Europe and the Year 2000 Computer Glitch

["David P. Dillard" <jwne@astro.ocis.temple.edu>]

From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@astro.ocis.temple.edu>


Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 06:50:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@astro.ocis.temple.edu>
To: Diversity University Collabertory <duc@egroups.com>
Subject: INFO/NYT: Europe and the Year 2000 Computer Glitch


        The New York Times article for which there is an excerpt and link
below describes the current and developing situation in Europe in regards
to the Y2K computer issue.

Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@astro.temple.edu

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Source:  New York Times (NYT)
Author:  EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Title:      Europe Rides Bumpy Computer Road to Year 2000
Source Date:  July 23, 1999
Resource Type:  News Article
Description/Keywords:  Europe, Y2K, Computer Compliance, Difficulties
URL:  Listed Below Article Summary

July 23, 1999
          Europe Rides Bumpy Computer Road to
          Year 2000
          By EDMUND L. ANDREWS

               HANOVER, Germany -- Perhaps fittingly, Germany's first
real scare about Year 2000 computer crashes came on a Friday the 13th.

          It was March 1998, and most people here were greeting warnings
about Year 2000 failures with a lack of interest. It seemed like a
trivial problem, a matter of making sure that computer clocks would
not misread the year 2000 as 1900.

          Then came the test at the Hanover city power company,
organized by a confident data processing manager in the spirit of public
education, with local media invited to watch. At first, everything seemed
fine. But within a few minutes after "midnight," the computer began spewing 
out
thousands of error messages. Then it froze up entirely, and the monitors
went blank.


                                     Hanover did not go dark. But for a
                                     few minutes, it was impossible to
                                     monitor the electric grid or to
                                     trace
                                     equipment breakdowns. It took
                                     seven months to eradicate all the
                                     problems.




An abstracted citation for this story will be archived in an edition of
E-Carm News at http://www.ecarm.org

Full Story May Be Read At:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/07/biztech/articles/23year.html



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