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Y2K
(Time, Jan 18)

"The end of the world as we know it." Is how this article so cheerfully started. Going on the explain, very vaguely, the Y2K computer problem. They had interviewed people from all over the United States, who explained the measured they were taking to prepare for 2000, everything from stockpiling food, to buying generators, to moving to the country. Apparently many people are quite distraught over the coming of the millennium.
I think the article was somewhat well written, but not informative enough. They explained how dry goods stores were doing better, but they failed to explain what exactly will happen in 2000. Just because the year is wrong in the computer doesn’t mean that all of a sudden you’ll start getting wrong change at the store, or that all the power will go out. My older brother (Lonny, computer science major at Southern) said that he ran a test program on his own computer to see how it would react, he simply changed the date to 2000, and ran the programs on his computer, he explained the only one of the programs had any trouble at all, and he wrote a loop program that afternoon to fix...

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