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Millennium computer problem. they call it one of the most serious and potentially devastating events the nation has ever encountered. the brains of most computers, the chips that do the thinking, have tiny, built in clocks. many register the year with only the last two digits, assuming the first two are always 19. the problem was not the computer would think that it 1800. the problem was, it wouldn t know what to do. it would just break down and go, can t process this. it could trigger widespread computer failures, blackouts, and breakdowns of everything from home appliances to the global financial system. if we left things as they are right now, the military would effectively shut down. the pentagon will spend at least $4 billion to diffuse the millennium bomb. pentagon officials are confident they ll do it. but critics claim they started too late, and those thousands of fixes won t be done in time. many states have not yet updated their computers that run programs, such a ....

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