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things aren’t as bad as one might be led to believe and that there is no need to panic. “The media is playing up the ‘dodm and gloom’ side. We don’t think that’s going to happen,” said Cloud in the beginning of his presentation.
The second major point he stressed is that many people think Y2K is only a personal computer (PC) problem. He commented “It’s much more than a PC problem. If it’s electronic, it has the potential to be a problem.”
The Y2K problem is simply this: After December 31 1999, some computer systems will become inoperable because they won’t be able to account for dates beyond that time. Over two decades ago, computer programmers used shortened date fields in order to save computer memory. Fof example, January 15, 1999 would read 1/15/99 on your computer instead of 1/15/1999. It
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