[26370] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Y2K glitches start being reported
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Wed Dec 29 09:58:11 1999
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@genesis.domino.org>
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To: sean@donelan.com (Sean Donelan)
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 14:43:43 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19991229144536.5198.cpmta@c004.sfo.cp.net> from "Sean Donelan" at Dec 29, 99 06:45:36 am
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I've seen this personally, I've also see a POS machine crash hard
around a year ago when my renewed VISA card with a 00 expiry date
was swiped.
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> 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.
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> >There have been some problems with a small percentage (5%) of point of sale
> >terminals (the card readers in shops that are used to process credit and debit
> >card transactions). The affected terminals show an error message which simply
> >needs to be cleared to allow the transaction to be processed. Although there
> >is a simple workaround, details were not immediately available to all affected
> >retailers, so consumers were inconvenienced yesterday. Now that the details
> >have been widely disseminated, consumers are much less likely to be affected.
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> >The problem is restricted to some of the machines produced by Racal Electronics
> >plc. Although the fault relates to the Y2K bug, it will disappear on 1.1.2000.
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> >This is only a minor glitch. It is typical of the sort of problem that it was >expected would need to be dealt with over this period. This problem does not >affect any other point of sale terminals, ATMs, the cards themselves or other >methods of payment, and does not lead us to expect any significant problems in >the financial sector.
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