Hospitals Have Low-tech Y2K Backup

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19991229/tc/y2k_hospitals_1.html

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Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs, Colo. recently purchased 153 low-tech bells, at $5.44 apiece, for patients to ring that night - just in case the Y2K bug fouls up hospital computers. ``It's a low cost way for patients to get nurses into their rooms if the call system fails,'' Jennifer Weil, a Memorial spokeswoman, said Tuesday.

-- hamster (hamster@mycage.com), December 29, 1999