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Re: The Y2K glitches start being reported

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Wed Dec 29 09:55:51 1999

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Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 09:54:27 -0500
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <ferguson@cisco.com>
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At 06:45 AM 12/29/1999 -0800, Sean Donelan wrote:

>And it begins, the early reports from England on a particular POS machine.
>Although this glitch was related to Y2K, POS machines are flaky on the best
>of days.

There's more on this story at:

  Racal Date-Change Software Bug Bites UK Shoppers
  http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991229/tc/britain_swipe_1.html

- paul



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