Don't just offer advice, Mr Cruickshank, do something useful William Hartston offers a practical way to squash the millennium bug

From: The Independent - London | Date: May 15, 1998| Author: William Hartston | Copyright information

THERE are two theories about the millennium bug: Theory One - the Doomsday Scenario - says that when computers click over to the year 2000 the whole of the western economy will collapse, planes will crash and lights will go out all over Europe, but none of that will matter because we'll all be killed by the stray nuclear missiles launched automatically from ex-Soviet millennium-non-compliant computers.

Theory Two, however, says that all these scare stories are just part of the Millenni...

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