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Y2K: The Year 2000 computer problem

Nov 18, 1997
Mohinder Goswami, Sara Meyer, Gary Eichten

Midday examines Y2K, the year 2000 computer problem.  Is it a $600 billion dollar disaster that will trap us in elevators, cause planes to crash, and banks to fail?   Or something the computer geeks can fix if they get going on it soon enough? Guest: Mohinder Goswami, president of Advanced Information Network Systems, Inc of Rockville, Maryland. Listeners call in with questions.  [show joined in progress]

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