Japan - Y2k hits 5 gov't offices & Osaka's earthquake detector

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(New Zealand's brief reports about Japan)

Gremlins get to work while world parties

03.01.2000 (January 3, 2000)

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Soft budget

Software used for budget calculations at five local government offices in Gifu prefecture, central Japan, malfunctioned. The software in question was all made in 1991.

Weather or not

Japan's Science and Technology Agency's high-sensitivity earthquake detector in Osaka failed to collect information from 38 sites after systems entered the year 2000.

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Source: The New Zealand Herald

http://www.herald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=107675

-- Lee Maloney (leemaloney@hotmail.com), February 20, 2000


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