What is the absolutely WORSE y2k-related glitch that has happened so far??

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Inquiring minds want to know. Thanks!

-- Rosanna Danna Danna (pleasenoe-mail@thanks.com), January 08, 2000

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Hard to say yet as some investigation needs to be done but I believe the Norway train crash might be it. Look at our web site and links to see the related stories. Mali and Amtrak both had signal problems and lost track of trains. Norway Engineers are now refusing to drive trains until the equipment is upgraded. This could well be the tragedy of Y2K. You can find us at www.dingdingding.com

-- Ron Sellar (y2kbook@telusplanet.net), January 08, 2000.

THE NORWAY TRAIN TRASH WAS NOT Y2K, THAT PART OF THE SYSTEM WASN'T AUTOMATED.

-- AMAZING (AMAZING@NONSENSE.WON'T STOP), January 08, 2000.

Amazing,

Are you sure that the red and green signals that were supposed to be operating prior to that stretch of track were not computer controlled. I mean, we have heard so much about street lights being computer controlled, so why not traffic lights for trains?

-- Gordon (gpconnolly@aol.com), January 08, 2000.


Y2K bugs in Norway's rail system

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), January 08, 2000.

The Polly mind is just so.....so......amazing.

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), January 08, 2000.


so much for absolutely ruling out the trainwreck as not being y2k related. good post spider.

-- lou (lan@springmail.com), January 08, 2000.

Spider's favorite little quote does nothing at all to "prove" the Norwegian train wreck was Y2K related.

It could or could not be, and the answer will await more definitive information on the cause.

-- John H Krempasky (johnk@dmv.com), January 08, 2000.


A court of law will get to the bottom of it. Maybe. Nobody knows for sure.

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), January 08, 2000.

DEFINITELY "Y2K related."

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), January 08, 2000.

So it just goes to show ya.

-- (DanChancroid@saturday.night), January 08, 2000.


What a strange co-incidence. Just as I am reading this thread, the news on TV has an item on the Norway train crash.

The Item is head: Train Crash - Human error to blame. I can't report everything verbatim, but the main crux of the story is that while the 19th body is being recovered, investigators have narrowed the cause down to human error.

So sorry, the Norwegian train crash is not the worst Y2K fault so far.

I would vote for the credit card overcharging as the worst so far in that is appears to affect the most people.

-- Malcolm Taylor (taylorm@es.co.nz), January 08, 2000.


The scariest Y2K bug for me was last month - in December, when big- time sophisticated and progressive Deutche Bank went down.

Sure, the bigger they are, the harder they fall...... but what about the little guys?

Deutche gets nailed by IBM fix

-- lisa (lisa@work.now), January 08, 2000.


The worst y2k-related glitch to have appeared on this forum, so far, is John H Krempasky.

-- (TrollPatrol@sheesh.now), January 08, 2000.

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