World's 3rd Busiest Airpot still not ready

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I apologize if this has already been posted. This was in our Austin American Statesman today, 9/3/99.

WITH 4 MONTHS TO GO, DFW IS WORKING TO FIX Y2K PROBLEMS (Grapevine) Will the runway lights be on at Dallas-Ft Worth International Airport after New Year's? The airport board was asked Thursday to pay almost $300,000 for repairs to the lights, which are not Y2K compliant.

The computerized dispatching system for DFW's Department of Public Safety is among 29 other year 2000 problems still not repaired at the world's 3rd busiest airport, Executive Director Jeff Fegan said.

Airport officials have spent $8 million to eliminate the y2k bugs identified in 108 computer systems. The Federal Aviation Administration & the airlines are working to correct their systems at DFW and other airports.

All the problems will be remedied by year's end, and safety will not be compromised, airport officials said.

Lawsuits could result from y2k problems, Fegan & others said, as businesses try to recoup their costs from computer makers and software systems developers whose products are unable to handle the change of centuries because their internal clocks express the year only in two digits.

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Don't you just love the part "ALL the problems will be remedied by year's end, and the safety WILL NOT be compromised, airport officials said."

It's amazing how accurately they can predict the future when they want to.

-- LindaO (lindao@hotmail.com), September 03, 1999

Answers

Linda,

Is airpot what you get when you mix airport and teapot, or is this a new type of smoke the pilots are using so as not to get picked up by the drug dogs at DEA? Hey, it's Friday, and everyone's a smart ars on Friday!!!

-- nitesky voodoO. (lookinup@wow.com), September 03, 1999.


LOLOLOL! I didn't even see that typo....Must be something in the air down here in Texas........ Yep! Hey, that reminds me of something I need to add to my preps.......

-- LindaO (lindao@hotmail.com), September 03, 1999.

Linda,

re: "reminds you of something else".... don't hide it all in your teaport!!!

-- nitesky voodoO. (lookinup@wow.com), September 03, 1999.


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