The Y2K Bug
The year 2000 problem could have been completely prevented had some
early people envisioned the degree to which the microprocessor would
change our lives. Surely, no one would have thought that in the early
days of ENIAC that everything from your alarm clock to your car would be
computerized. Even the IT managers of the 80's could not be blamed: The
disk space savings from dropping the two digits of the date over 100
Million Records would …
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…the Year 2000"
Author: Jeff Jigget
http://www.year2000.com/archive/
"ISO 8601 Standard for Numerical Representation of Dates"
International Standards Organization
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/
"Year 2000 Issues List"
Serge Bouwens, PTT Telecom, Netherlands
http://www.year2000.com
"The Millennium Mess"
CACI Incorporated
http://www.caci.com
"Experts Call Year 2000 Bug a Real Threat"
Reuters News, Inc.
http://www.reuters.com/
Datamation Magazine
http://www.datamation.com/
Global Software, Inc.
http://www.glbsoft.com/
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