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Re: GPS - More errors since 090999?
From: Ed Falk
Date: 1999 Nov 08, 4:38 PM
From: Ed Falk
Date: 1999 Nov 08, 4:38 PM
So far we've been lucky with the Y2K pre-shocks. In 1997, a few credit cards with '00 expirations bounced. I understand there are lawsuits about this one. Post cereal had the notice "Best if consumed before March, 1900" on the box tops for a while. This has been fixed. The state of Maine DMV issued a number of "Horseless Carriage" registrations. Most of those were caught before being mailed. Some newspaper columnist who was running a small surplus on his Radio Shack credit balance got an unaccountably large refund shortly after 9/9/99. Radio shack insisted there was nothing wrong with their software and wouldn't take the money back. I think that's about it. Looks like y2k is going to be the source of more merriment than trouble.
