Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Conclusions More Information About the Authors Return to the Millennium Bug Home Page. Return to the New Media Workshop Homepage. There are three particular kinds of computer systems that may or may not be affected by the Millennium Bug, according to Bill Goodwin, publisher of Tick Tick Tick, a monthly Brooklyn-based newsletter devoted to the promoting awareness of the Millennium Bug and possible solutions.
Mainframes are the computers at the heart of many businesses and government agencies.
They are used to keep track of such things as customer records, accounting records, investments, taxes, banking, interest calculations, scheduling, and hundreds of other kinds of data specific to the agency or business. Memory restrictions transcended language. Complicating matters is the fact that many software applications are written using mixtures of two or more languages at one time. At least 30 percent of of American software applications contain at least two languages, the SPR survey said. Go on to the next page.