Y2K Glitches heard on morning news

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1) A New Hampshire airport's computer crashed for three hours disrupting air traffic in the NorthEast. FAA officials are saying it might have been y2k.

2) The y2k glitch in the Oak Ridge Nuclear weapons plant was part of a mission critical system. You know, the ones that were fixed.

-- John Ainsworth (ainsje00@wfu.edu), January 04, 2000

Answers

Heard the tail end of a news report...no phone service in Andoscoggin (?) county in Maine. Reporter said that they thought it might be the weather, but that it hadn't been confirmed yet.

-- Dana (nopolly@cant.tell), January 04, 2000.

Not just Nashua New Hampshire's Airport: Chicago O'Hare, Kennedy, LaGuardia, Newark, Logan and New Zealand. See my post entitled Guys, Guys......

-- meg davis (meg9999@aol.com), January 04, 2000.

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