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Paul Weston <PaulWeston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>I personally, within the last 2 weeks, had my credit card declined at a
>large and fancy hotel. Yeap, it expires in 2000 and was read as already
>expired. Not the end of the world, but certainly a pain.
The lady who runs the little shop where I get my beekeeping supplies
was very surprised when her card reader choked on my XX/01 card,
since she'd been happily approving XX/00 cards for months. Seems
somebody forgot the old maxim: you've got to check on BOTH sides
of zero. A long telephone process, pushing buttons for the robot
completed the transaction, and another failure point was unmasked.
I suspect by zero hour, a lot more of the problem will be solved
than some fear now, but I also expect some interesting surprises.
As an exercise in crowd psychology, which, after all, is really
the game we're all involved in, I wonder if Y2K will prove to
be a case of "Sell the rumor, buy the news..."
Should be fun, in any case.
Jim
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