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… Y2K supposed disaster of global communications, health care malfunctions, and various transport system glitches, one can only be a little skeptical of the whole situation presented by our government and ones abroad. Although from the information present…

… wrote software that represented years with only two digits rather than four. It was done to conserve memory. Unfortunately these programs interpret the year 2000 as 1900. There is no "silver bullet" to solve this problem in time for the year 2000.…

… disclosures by Chevron, Inc. pertaining to Y2K disclosure reporting. The article, “SEC Interpretative Release on Disclosure of Year 2000 Issues” by Gary Illiano and Joseph Bentz addresses the issue of reporting Y2K losses. Reporting Y2K losses…

… it is a good idea to be informed about exactly what the year 2000 problem is. Computers were programmed to store the date in the following format: dd/mm/yy. This only allows 2 digits for the year. January 1, 2000 will be stored as 01/01/00. The computer…

… everybody's life personally or economically. The possibility that many computer systems will experience, somewhat, an inability to function properly as the year 2000 approaches, is a growing concern for most companies and individuals. The misrepresenta…

… in the 1950's and 1960's, when computers were just begging to emerge, data storage space was expensive and in short supply. By today's standards even the largest of the mainframe computers had insignificant hard memory storage abilities. Computer…

… the phrase year 2000, and it is the same type of people who abbreviated the Y2K problem that got us here in the first place. The Y2K problem was created at the birth of the computer, but was not taken seriously until roughly fifteen years ago. To…

… have no clue what it means. This research paper will explain what it means, what is to blame, and possible effects the problem could have in the future. Although the issue seems a simple, even pointless one on the surface, once examined, you can discov…

… from a worldwide celebration into a universal nightmare. With computers mistaking the year 2000 for 1900, virtually all businesses that use dates will be affected. Not only will the companies be affected, but also they are paying millions upon millions…

… Annoyance? The inherent and unavoidable unreliability of computers is about to be stressed, to some unknown and unknowable extent, by a seemingly trivial "feature"--the Year 2000 (Y2K) problem. Systems and application programs that use dates to…