Effects Of The Year 2000 Problem

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causing a major
headache for government agencies and major businesses, not to mention all
home owners and other people. Gina Smith writes in a August 1998 issue of
Popular Science about the fixing of the problem

"You are probably wondering why the problem is so hart to fix. It isn't
It's just that there's so much to be fixed. Updating software to handle the
new century is sometimes a matter of culling through millions of lines of
code, and the finding and fixing every two-digit date reference. One
mistake and the entire operation may be unsuccessful" (Smith 26).

What can the Y2K prblem effect?

On the home front people could be waking up to chaos. In June 1998,
PC Computing featured an article where John C. Dvorak shares his thoughts
of what might happen on 1 January 1998. He writes:

"The situation will not be easily corrected and many believe it will
collapse the economy. This will be worsened by municipal systems that will
cut off people's gas, light, and water since they ...

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of
institutions around the world"(Consumer Reports 56). It's possible banks
could loose all records of customers accounts and going to the bank to get
money would be a joke.
The Department of Defense could put the security of it's citizens
in jeopardy. Nuclear weapons could accidentally be set off killing millions
of people. Radar and other computer systems might fail causing out defense
system to be unaware of possible attack. In a 13 September 1997 issue of
Science News Janet Raloff states:

"Recently, the Defense Department got a taste of what Headaches lie in
store, when a faulty year 2000-related date calculation inappropriately
removed form inventory 90,000 items in ...

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