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Letter: That year again

Published 6 June 1998

From Chris Southern

Further to your earlier correspondence on when the new millennium really
starts, in the 7 May issue of the Institution of Electrical Engineers’s IEE
News there is an article on how to beat the millennium bug.

The first paragraph reads: “Just because a company doesn’t rely on computers
in its day-to-day business doesn’t mean that it’s immune to the threat of the
date change from 1999 to 2001.”

csouthern@brasspaw.cix.co.uk

Issue no. 2137 published 6 June 1998

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