The subject line is taken from a notice on the new entry section of the infowar.com site

http://www.infowar.com/new_iwc/new_iwc.shtml

The AP article, datelined 1/05/00, Athens, Greece copied at

http://www.info-sec.com/y2k/00/y2k_010500d_j.shtml

Don't have a URL for the original.

Number of registers affected is estimated (10% of approximately 300,000 registers affected. Core of article:

Nikos Barmbis, president of a union that sells cash registers, told the daily newspaper To Vima that 20,000 to 30,000 machines "do not have the technology to accept the new date and are not working,"

-- Nick Sizemore (bolshev@theriver.com), January 06, 2000