At 09:43 PM 06/14/98 -0700, Kathy wrote:
>forwarded to me by one of my students ...
>
><http://adserver.merc.com/adserver.cgi?version=1.0&action=adclick&eid=1&id=
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>>
>>04:13 PM ET 06/11/98
>>Year 2000 bug seen as huge challenge to power grid
>>
>> By James Jelter
>> NEW YORK (Reuters) - All the talk of coaxing computers to
>>clear the Millennium hurdle assumes there will still be
>>electricity to run them. Perhaps not.
>> A Senate hearing Friday led by Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah)
>>will listen to a panel of experts explain why the vast North
>>American power grid is also vulnerable to the Year 2000 bug and
>>whether pending computer malfunctions can be overcome.
>> On this point, the experts vary. Some warn of widespread
>>outages when the clock strikes midnight, January 1, 2000,
>>confounding computer chips unable to decifer the date.
I can't find this story either, but I'm not impressed by any news service
that fails to correctly spell a simple word like "decipher". Though
interestingly, the Eudora spell checker didn't pick it up :>)
Barry
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