From: USCMike1@aol.com
Subject: SNET: Increasing Instances of Year 2000 computer Bug Crashes- more every day
Date: 19 Jul 1998 21:39:25 -0400
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Dear Citizens:

  Everyone has been talking about the y2k computer bug.  Some say nothing will
happen and others say everything will be devastated and we will be thrown into
worldwide economic turmoil with rioting and starvation.  Here, read this for
yourself and decide.

USCMike1


Subj:	 [Fwd: [Fwd: Y2K Occurances]]
Date:	98-07-19 18:43:39 EDT
To:	USCMike1@aol.com

Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 13:19:26 -0800
cen11156@centuryinter.net
From: Epperly From IRS-Year 2000 (AP US & World, 23 Jan 1998), by Rob Wells, AP Tax =
Writer, from Washington

"The IRS uncovered an unintended side effect of its effort to eliminate =
the Year 2000 computer bug: About 1,000 taxpayers who were current in =
their tax installment agreements were suddenly declared in default due =
to a programming error.

Rob Wells makes the following key points:

* IRS found and corrected the bug.
* There are 62 million lines of source code to check.
* The error was caused by an attempted Y2K fix."

For more examples, check out "Electric Utilities and Year 2000's"

Real-life Examples of Date Related Problems for Electric Utilities


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