20,000 credit card machines down in UK--------> from AP

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I know it was posted earlier but with all the jumpin around this looked real important to me since it involves the illustriously well prepared banking system where they will have NO problems---right? sorry no link--story on AOL 8;30pm e.dt.

""Y2K Bug Triggers Credit Card Snafu

LONDON (AP) - A Y2K-triggered failure in credit card swipe machines caused frustrating delays for thousands of retailers and customers trying to ring up purchases across Britain on Wednesday. The machines, manufactured by Racal Electronics and supplied by HSBC, one of Britain's four largest banks, improperly rejected credit cards because of a failure to recognize the year 2000, a bank spokeswoman said. Merchants who tried to swipe Mastercard and Visa cards through some 20,000 machines beginning on Tuesday found they were improperly rejected, said an HSBC spokeswoman. Full Story

-- D...... (dciinc@aol.com), December 29, 1999

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Hey --d---, Thanks for some Y2K news other than TB2000 hide & seek.

on de rock

-- Walter (on de rock@northrock.bm), December 29, 1999.


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