...just saw this on drudge, went and snagged it:

Y2K Bug Shows Up in Philadelphia like they thought they were gonna be immune or something? The Associated Press Saturday, Nov. 27, 1999; 12:43 p.m. EST PHILADELPHIA  As many as 500 people got notices telling them to show up for jury duty in 1900  an error caused by the so-called Y2K bug in city court computers. wow o wow o gollee gee "Yes, after all the work that was done to avoid this, it happened,"heck ya it happened, and it's a-gonna keep on happening, mr. soon to be without a job or any food dood city Jury Commissioner Michael J. McAllister told the Philadelphia Daily News. "Well, it was only one run of mailings, and we've taken care of it. It shouldn't happen again." shouldn't happen again, huh?, what the heck you gonna do when it's something important? Is philly gov prepared to water and feed and shelter their entire population for some vague time period? Or are you gonna keep on telling everyone it's fixed it's fixed noneedtoworry it's ALL fixed?

About 400 to 500 people got the erroneous mailings, he said. McAllister said the problem only involved those who had been granted postponements of their jury duty; the notices were for a second call. But Charles McLaughlin of the city's Port Richmond section, who got his summons Friday, said he had never asked for a postponement. "I told my wife, 'I've got jury duty, but I can't go. I've already missed it.' Then I told her it was for the year 1900," he said. Brian Anderson, who is in charge of the city's computer systems, could not be reached for comment by the Daily News. why is this not surprising? Computer experts around the world have been warning for months about the Y2K bug, a technological glitch that can cause computer systems to mistake the year 2000 for 1900. ) Copyright 1999 The Associated Press

good luck to everyone, and better skill

-- zog (zzoggy@yahoo.com), November 27, 1999

Answers

Zog, yep headlined on Drudge:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991127/aponline124357_ 000.htm

Y2K Bug Shows Up in Philadelphia

-- dilly in philly (but@we.fixed.it!), November 27, 1999.

Zogster, as you point out this is just the tip of the iceberg that's gonna sink Philadelphia. I still haven't heard anything more on the city water system since last spring's report that Philly has less than twenty-four hour's water in event of a power outage. Nothing tells me that there has been anything done to improve that situation.

WW

-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), November 27, 1999.