A Few Y2K Glitches Being Found Around Ohio...

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A few Y2K glitches being found around Ohio

The Associated Press 1/4/00 2:25 PM

A few Y2K glitches have been found around Ohio, including one that shut down a computer controlling jail locks at the Seneca County jail.

The computer wouldn't allow doors to open electronically so jailers simply had to use keys, said Sheriff H. Weldin Neff.

The sheriff's office experienced two other Y2K related glitches. Its inner-office paging system went down for about a half-hour early Saturday, and a computer system used to book prisoners into the jail would not correctly assign booking numbers.

"If we experienced the problems we did with all the preparations we made, I'd hate to think what it would have been like if the Y2K thing wasn't taken seriously," said Neff.

Computer technicians a few weeks ago had told the sheriff's office that the computers were Y2K compliant, Neff said.

"I think it's obvious that we're not happy that we were told these computers would be OK when they weren't," Neff said.

Schedules and routing numbers for public buses in Sandusky were messed up because of the Y2K bug. Buses still were running normally, but dispatchers for the system had to manually enter route numbers and schedules for each trip made.

Don Ballah, executive director of the Sandusky Transit System, said dispatchers are frustrated at having to spend up to three times as many hours to create schedules for drivers.

"It's inconvenient, but it's not affecting the service that's provided," he said.

-- Vern (bacon17@ibm.net), January 04, 2000


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